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.
See original version (French) Auto-translation. Refer to original language for legal validity.
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