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Head of a man
wood, ground layer, paint
painted surface worn; surface of the bottom is covered by ground layer
H: 13 cm W: 12 cm D: 12 cm
Description: an individual representation of a head (not part of a statue or bust); constituted from three parts; with traces of ancient ground layer on the bottom
Wig: ca. shoulder-length, painted black
Face: painted brick red; finely elaborated features; black and white painted eyes and black painted eyebrows
Funerary furniture/Part of the private burial equipment (associated with magical protection of the head of the transfigured dead or ancestor cult, see E. Varga, E., Une tête de bois peint d'Egypte, Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts 53 (1979),
New Kingdom, early Ramesside Period
Unknown
Unknown (Purchased from an art dealer in 1958)
Varga – Wessetzky 1964, 19, Pl. VIII.2
Varga, E. – Wessetzky, V., Egyiptomi kiállítás, Budapest 1964.
Varga 1979a
Varga, E., Une tête de bois peint d'Egypte / Egy egyiptomi festett fa fej), Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts 53 (1979), 5–16/225–230.
I. Nagy 1999, 39, fig. 21
Nagy, I., Vezető az Egyiptomi Kiállításhoz (A Szépművészeti Múzeum Gyűjteményei 2), Budapest 1999 (= Guide to the Egyptian Collection (Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, 2), Budapest 1999).
F. Kevély in Bárkányi 2014, 124-125 (cat. 13).
Bárkányi, I. (szerk.), A fáraók Egyiptoma. A Móra Ferenc Múzeum kiállításának vezetője, Szeged, Móra Ferenc Múzeum 2014.
Bust with double feather headdress, private collection (E. Varga, Une tête de bois peint d'Egypte, Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts 53 (1979), fig. 7-9)
58.2-E
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