Egypt
Here's the description from the MFA website:
- Photo For Today - Mummy Coffin
Mummy case of Tabes Third Intermediate Period Cartonnage No provenance Here's the description on the website of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston. Mummy case and mummy of Tabes Egyptian, Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 22, 945–712 B.C. Length:...
- Photo For Today - Head From Sarcophagus, Mfa
Copyright Rick Menges, with my thanks Head from an anthropoid sarcophagus Ptolemaic Dynast, c. 200 B.C. Limestone No provenance listed Here's the description from the MFA website: Head from an anthropoid sarcophagus Egyptian, Hellenistic Period...
- Photo For Today - Gilded Mummy Mask, Mfa
Copyright Rick Menges, with my thanks Mummy Mask Graeco-Roman 1st Century BC Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts Thanks to Rick for letting me know that, contrary to my previous assertion, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, do actually have...
- Photo For Today - Mfa, Boston
Copyright Rick Menges, with my thanks Lid of the sarcophagus of General Kheperre Late Period, Dynasty 26, reign of Amasis, 570–526 B.C. Giza Greywacke Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Thanks to Rick Menges for rescuing me from the photographic void by...
- More Re Return Of Imesy Sarcophagus
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) The two-piece wooden and plastered sarcophagus from Egypt's 21st Dynasty (ca. 1070-945 B.C.) is brightly painted with clear hieroglyphic writing on it. It was created for an elite male named Imesy. The coffin's...
Egypt
Photo for Today - Coffin footboard, MFA
Copyright Rick Menges, with my thanks
Coffin footboard
Graeco-Roman
Painted wood
Provenance unlisted
Graeco-Roman
Painted wood
Provenance unlisted
Here's the description from the MFA website:
Coffin footboard
Egyptian, Greco-Roman Period, A.D. 50–100
Height x length: 46.6 x 63 cm (18 3/8 x 24 13/16 in.)
Painted wood
Classification: Tomb equipment
On view in the: Egyptian Funerary Arts Gallery
Footboard depicting the mummification of Osiris by Anubis. Two mourning women, representing Isis and Nephthys, stand at either end of Osiris. There is a vertical strip of hieroglyphic text in both upper corners; however, their meaning is not fully understood.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Egyptian Special Purchase Fund, 1979
Accession number: 1979.37
Provenance/Ownership History: December 14, 1979: New York sale, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, sold to MFA.
- Photo For Today - Mummy Coffin
Mummy case of Tabes Third Intermediate Period Cartonnage No provenance Here's the description on the website of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston. Mummy case and mummy of Tabes Egyptian, Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 22, 945–712 B.C. Length:...
- Photo For Today - Head From Sarcophagus, Mfa
Copyright Rick Menges, with my thanks Head from an anthropoid sarcophagus Ptolemaic Dynast, c. 200 B.C. Limestone No provenance listed Here's the description from the MFA website: Head from an anthropoid sarcophagus Egyptian, Hellenistic Period...
- Photo For Today - Gilded Mummy Mask, Mfa
Copyright Rick Menges, with my thanks Mummy Mask Graeco-Roman 1st Century BC Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts Thanks to Rick for letting me know that, contrary to my previous assertion, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, do actually have...
- Photo For Today - Mfa, Boston
Copyright Rick Menges, with my thanks Lid of the sarcophagus of General Kheperre Late Period, Dynasty 26, reign of Amasis, 570–526 B.C. Giza Greywacke Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Thanks to Rick Menges for rescuing me from the photographic void by...
- More Re Return Of Imesy Sarcophagus
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) The two-piece wooden and plastered sarcophagus from Egypt's 21st Dynasty (ca. 1070-945 B.C.) is brightly painted with clear hieroglyphic writing on it. It was created for an elite male named Imesy. The coffin's...