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

Further readings

• 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. 
• von Bothmer, Bernard (1960). Riefstahl, Elizabeth, ed. Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period, 700 B.C. to A.D. 100. Brooklyn, New York: The brooklyn Museum (reprinted by Arno Press, INC., 1969). pp. 138–140; pls. 100–101. 

See also

• Berlin Green Head