Portrait Head from a Coffin
Artist
Unknown
Datecirca 100–150
MediumPlaster with traces of paint
Dimensions10 7/8 x 6 15/16 x 6 7/8 in. (27.6 x 17.7 x 17.5 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. Fred Olsen
Object numberG.57.14.13
On View
On viewPersona Grata: An Exhibition of Masks from 1200 B.C. to the Present (exhibition catalogue) (Houston: University of St. Thomas, 1960), cat. no. 6.
Günter Grimm, Die Römischen Mumienmasken aus Ägypten (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1974), 63, note 30.
Caroline M. Rocheleau, Ancient Egyptian Art [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2012), cat. no. 35, illus. (color) 97.
Asja Müller, Ägyptens schöne Gesichter: Die Mumienmasken der römischen Kaiserzeit und ihre Funktion im Totenritual [translation: Egypt's beautiful faces: The mummy masks of the Roman Empire and their function in the ritual of the dead], AF 39 (Wiesbaden, Germany, 2021), database catalog, Arachne ID: 6867734 (https://arachne.dainst.org/entity/6867734)
Exhibition HistoryHouston, TX, University of St. Thomas, “An Exhibition of Masks from 1200 B.C. to the Present,” November 1960, cat. no. 6.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement
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