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.
See original version (French) Auto-translation. Refer to original language for legal validity.
Pictures credits: Contact organization
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