Boston Green Head

The Boston Green Head is a greywacke sculptured head of an Egyptian priest from the Late Period of ancient Egypt. The head is dated to 380–332 BC[1] and is housed in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States.

Provenance

The head is believed to have been found in 1858 at the Serapeum of Saqqara.[1] Later Muhammed Said Pasha, a pro-French viceroy of Egypt, gave it to Prince Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte.[1]

In 1904, the head was purchased by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts from Edward Perry Warren.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Head of a priest (The Boston Green Head)". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved 1 May 2014.

Berman, Lawrence M. (2015). The Priest, the Prince, and the Pasha: The Life and Afterlife of an Ancient Egyptian Sculpture. MFA Publications. ISBN 978-0878467969. 

Rowland, Ingrid D. (September 24, 2015). "The Immortal Egyptian Priest". The New York Review of Books LXII (14): 18,20. 

See also

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