Plaster face from a coffin or mummy case
1550–1070 B.C.
FindspotBuhen, Nubia (Egypt)
Medium/TechniquePlaster
DimensionsWidth (greatest) x Length: 7.5 x 8.5 cm (2 15/16 x 3 3/8 in.)
Credit LineMFA-University of Pennsylvania Exchange
Accession number1991.1157
On View
Not on viewClassificationsTomb equipment
Collections
ProvenanceFrom Buhen, tomb H 36. 1909-1910: excavated by the E.B. Coxe Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania; assigned to the University of Pennsylvania in the division of finds by the Sudanese government; 1910-1991: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; 1991: received by the MFA through exchange with the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
(Accession date: March 25, 1992)
(Accession date: March 25, 1992)
2350–2194 B.C.
2465–2150 B.C.
about 1st–2nd century A.D.
mid-1st century A.D.
probably 1st century AD
about 2nd century A.D., A.D. 100–199
A.D. 101–200
A.D. 98–117