Face from a Sarcohagus
Unidentified Ancient Egyptian maker
First Millennium BCE (possibly) (1000 BCE-1 CE)
Limestone with red and black paint
Overall: 5 1/2 × 5 1/4 in. (14 × 13.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Bequest of Emily Howe Hitchcock, Class of 1872HW
12.2.473
Geography/Culture
Africa, Northern Africa, Egypt
Period
1000 BCE-1 CE
Object Name
Funerary Equipment
Classification
Ancient Egypt
Africa
Not on view
Inscription
Inscribed, on reverse, in graphite: Thebes
Course History
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Fall 2019
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Fall 2019
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015
Exhibition History
Faces of Culture: Masks from the Permanent Collection of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 1, 1991-November 1, 1993.
Published References
Cf. the head of a “Ptolemaic sandstone coffin” from Abydos, Petrie Abydos Part I, 1902 pl. 74: 9.
Provenance
Collected by Mary Maynard Hitchcock (1834-1887) and Hiram Hitchcock (1832-1900, Class of 1872H), in Egypt (possibly from a dealer in Alexandria or Cairo), about 1867-68; bequeathed to his second wife, Emily Howe Hitchcock (1852-1912), Hanover, New Hampshire, 1900; bequeathed to present collection, 1912.
Old Number
Red No. 12.469; glass plate negative #: 28B4
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