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Head of a priest (The Boston Green Head)

380–332 B.C.
Medium/TechniqueGreywacke
DimensionsHeight x width x depth: 10.5 x 8.5 x 11.3 cm (4 1/8 x 3 3/8 x 4 7/16 in.)
Credit LineHenry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession number04.1749
On View
On view
ClassificationsSculpture
ProvenanceFrom Saqqara, Serapeum. 1857-58: excavated by Auguste Mariette; 1858: given by Muhammad Said Pasha, viceroy of Egypt, to Prince Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte, Paris; by 1903: with Edward Perry Warren, Lewes House, Sussex; 1904: purchased by the MFA from Edward Perry Warren.
(Accession Date: January 19, 1904)