- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1965.551
- Title
- Mummy Mask of a Man
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture
- Date
- early 3rd century CE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Africa, Egypt (Ancient)
- Period
- Roman Imperial period, Middle
- Culture
- Egyptian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/287345
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Painted plaster with glass-covered eyes
- Technique
- Handmade
- Dimensions
- 35 cm h x 27 cm w x 27 cm d (13 3/4 x 10 5/8 x 10 5/8 in.)
- Provenance
- [Nicolas Koutoulakis, Paris, (by 1953)], sold; to Dr. Robert Waelder, Pennsylvania, (1953-1965), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1965.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Dr. Robert Waelder
- Accession Year
- 1965
- Object Number
- 1965.551
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Gunter Grimm, Die Romischen Mumienmasken aus Agypten (Wiesbaden, 1974), p. 86, pl 52, fig. 1
Asja Mueller, "Provenancing Roman Period Mummy Masks: Workshop Groups and Distribution Areas", Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference of Egyptologists, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. (Oxford, 2015), p. 134, fig. 74
- Exhibition History
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Roman Gallery Installation (long-term), Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/16/1999 - 01/20/2008
Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/22/2007 - 01/20/2008
32Q: 3740 Egyptian, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 11/20/2019
- Subjects and Contexts
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Google Art Project
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