Mummy portrait head

3rd century

Painted plaster

10 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. x 4 1/2 in. (26.1 x 21.0 cm x 11.4 cm)

Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection and Hagop Kevorkian

46.53

Provenance: [Hagop Kevorkian, New York]; partial purchase and partial gift (1/3 of purchase price) from Mr. Kevorkian to Seattle Art Museum/ Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection, Seattle, Washington, February 8, 1946

Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Resources

Published ReferencesFuller, Richard E. Seattle Art Museum. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1946, p. 21

Teeter, Emily. The Egyptian Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, in KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt, Vol. 12, No. 3, Fall 2001, illus. p. 25

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