Face from Sarcophagus Lid
Egyptian, Egypt, Africa
Ptolemaic Period (323-30 BCE)
Limestone with black paint
Overall: 7 1/16 × 4 5/8 × 5 5/16 in. (18 × 11.8 × 13.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Museum Purchase
39.64.6721
Geography/Culture
Africa, Northern Africa, Egypt
Period
1000 BCE-1 CE
Object Name
Funerary Equipment
Classification
Ancient Egypt
Africa
Not on view
Course History
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015
ANTH 12.5, Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Virginia Herrmann, Winter 2014
ANTH 12.5, Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Virginia Herrmann, Winter 2014
Exhibition History
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, January 5, 2016.-January 31, 2019.
Egyptian Antiquities at Dartmouth, Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 12, 2011-August 13, 2012.
Provenance
British School of Archaeology in Egypt (Univeristy College, London); Museum and Art Gallery Reading, England; sold to present collection, 1939.
Old Number
Reading Museum: no number
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