On Seeing the "Ancient Faces" Exhibit at the British Museum

In the British Museum, I went to the Mummy special exhibit-from Greece, some were Etruscan and of other heritages-and the exhibit was of "painted faces on wood" coffins of the people. It was an interesting mix of realistic painted faces of different classes of people: artistocrats, middle class, and even slaves.  Yet, all were treated the same in death. Their portraits were painted. For the exhibit, each face was numbered and labeled by descriptions, such as "the skinny man," "the bearded man", and "the naked man".  It inspired me to write a poem, seeing the face numbered #161.
#161 was descirpted as "Eyes Painted in Alabaster"

Eyes rendered in painted alabaster:
The head was painted
no different from the rest.
The mask was clay,
the boy was dust.
And come to this,
we must!
--

Robert Robinson