Head from finely polished white limestone lid of sarcophagus; deceased shown wearing plain tripartite wig that falls behind ears; this style of sarcophagus was popular from Dynasty 30 through the Ptolemaic Period.
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- ID
- MFAB_12.1511
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- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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- Classification
- Tomb equipment-Coffins and sarcophagi
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- Findspot
- Giza (provenance unknown)
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- Material
- Limestone
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- Dimensions
- Height x width x depth: 48 x 53 x 35 cm (18 7/8 x 20 7/8 x 13 3/4 in.)
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- Credit Line
- Gift of Service des Antiquités d'Égypte
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- Object Ownership Information
- MFA
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- Period
- Greco-Roman, Ptolemaic
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- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. 1912: given to the MFA by the Egyptian Antiquities Service.
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D'Auria, Sue, Peter Lacovara, and Catharine H. Roehrig. Mummies & Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1988, p. 193, cat. 139.
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