Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/King Tut Mask

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[edit] King Tut Mask

Image:King Tut Ankh Amun Golden Mask 01.jpg
Mask of the mummy of the pharaoh Tutankhamun, now part of the collection of The Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The mask was among the treasures found in Tutankhamun's tomb when it was discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter.
Reason
Born in Arizona, moved to Babylonia. Hi-res image of iconic funerary artwork. I like this image better than this one or {this one.
Articles this image appears in
Tutankhamun
Creator
uploaded by User:Realman208
  • Support as nominator — Spikebrennan 19:29, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
  • oppose crunchy jpeg artifacts at full res. Debivort 20:59, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
Where are they? I wouldn't know a jpeg artifact if it crawled out of its coffin and bit me on the butt. Spikebrennan 13:57, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
Compression artifact. Look for the square patterns in the gold in the mane and in the shadows round the eyes. ~ Veledan • Talk 19:51, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
Aah, gotcha. Live and learn. Nominator withdraws support.Spikebrennan 16:31, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose Jpeg artifacts. 8thstar 21:46, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose Yeah, the artifacts are pretty bad. Also, for such an important piece of history, the resolution is sort of low... I know that it meets the 1000px requirement, but still... I would like to see something much bigger. tiZom(2¢) 23:30, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose crazy artifacts.--Mad Max 08:07, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment only: did the uploader really take this image himself? Fascinating... How so? Lupo 07:45, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
  • OpposeAt the very least, the subject shouldn't be cropped so close that you lose parts of it on the left hand side. I've seen this mask and can still recall the level of detail in those inlays, which are rendered as a smudge of colours here. As a copy of an artwork it should impart that sort of information, at least. mikaultalk 11:26, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose, sorry but the subject is cut off --Hadseys 12:00, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Not promoted MER-C 03:24, 12 July 2007 (UTC)