Lot no. 98
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. Size: 26 x 39 cm Provenance: Pierre Bergé & Associés, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27-28 November 2006: no. 703 (ill.) Millon & associés, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 14 November 2007: no. 201 (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. 178 Ancient Egypt, May-June-July 2013, no 8, p. 68 "Les nouveaux musées de France", Géo Voyage, 2014, pp. 68-69 Force One, 2017, no 15, p. 36 "The MACM shines internationally", Mougins Infos, 2017-2018, p. 45 An Egyptian limestone funerary mask, Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 B.C.
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11/18/2025
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