Lot no. 97
FUNERARY MASK IN LIMESTONE Egyptian art, Ptolemaic period, 332-30 BC Anthropoid coffin mask depicting a male face wearing a nemesis with ears uncovered. Missing parts. Height: 33 cm Provenance: Former French private collection Piasa, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 14 April 2008: n°155 (ill.) Royal-Athena Galleries, New York Christian Levett Collection, Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, acquired in 2008 Exhibitions: Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011-August 2023 Bibliography : J. M. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, Royal-Athena Galleries, 2009, vol. XX, p. 74, fig. 179 Ancient Egypt, May-June-July 2013, no 8, p. 68 "Private museums", Géo Voyage, 2014, pp. 68-69 "People", State, 2014, no. 15, p. 20 Force One, 2017, no 15, p. 36 An Egyptian limestone funerary mask, Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 B.C.
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11/18/2025
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