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Scene on cartonnage
Scene on cartonnage

Scene on cartonnage

305–30 B.C.
Medium/TechniqueCartonnage; textile backing
DimensionsLength x width: 22.5 x 13.4 cm (8 7/8 x 5 1/4 in.)
Credit LineHay Collection—Gift of C. Granville Way
Accession number72.4814
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTomb equipment
ProvenanceBy 1836: Robert Hay Collection, Linplum, Scotland; 1863: to his son, Robert James Alexander Hay; 1868-1872: Way Collection, Boston (purchased by Samuel A. Way through London dealers Rollin and Feuardent, 27 Haymarket); 1872: given to the MFA by Samuel's son, C. Granville Way.
(Accession date: June 28, 1872)
Head end from an anthropoid coffin
1991–1783 B.C., or later
Mummy mask
late 1st century B.C. to early 1st century A.D.
Mummy mask
50 B.C.–50 A.D.
Mummy trappings
305–30 B.C.
Panel C
3rd–2nd century B.C.
Feet from a mummy case
3rd–2nd century B.C.
Coffin fragment
1070–700 B.C.