Face from Sarcophagus Lid

Unidentified Ancient Egyptian maker

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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: Museum Purchase

39.64.6721

Geography

Place Made: Egypt, Northern Africa, Africa

Period

1000 BCE-1 CE

Object Name

Funerary Equipment

Research Area

Ancient Egypt

Africa

Not on view

Course History

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

REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015

REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015

REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Fall 2019

REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Fall 2019

Exhibition History

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.

Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, January 5, 2016.-January 31, 2019.

Provenance

British School of Archaeology in Egypt (Univeristy College, London); Museum and Art Gallery Reading, England; sold to present collection, 1939.

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