The priest, the prince, and the Pasha : the life and afterlife of an ancient Egyptian sculpture /

The priest, the prince, and the Pasha : the life and afterlife of an ancient Egyptian sculpture /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Berman, Lawrence Michael, 1952-
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Boston : MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, [2015] New York, N.Y. : Distributed by ARTBOOK / D.A.P.
Description:	206 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Mariette, Auguste, -- 1821-1881. Warren, Edward Perry, -- 1860-1928 -- Private collections. Bonaparte, Napoléon-Joseph-Charles-Paul, -- Prince, -- 1822-1891. Bonaparte, Napoléon-Joseph-Charles-Paul, -- Prince, -- 1822-1891. Mariette, Auguste, -- 1821-1881. Saʻīd, -- Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, -- 1822-1863. Warren, Edward Perry, -- 1860-1928. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Portrait sculpture, Egyptian. Priests -- Egypt -- Portraits. Excavations (Archaeology) -- Egypt -- History. Excavations (Archaeology) Portrait sculpture, Egyptian. Priests. Private collections. Egypt. History. Portraits.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10393855

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Varying Form of Title:	Life and afterlife of an ancient Egyptian sculpture
Other authors / contributors:	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
ISBN:	9780878467969 0878467963
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-192) and index.
Summary:	"Sometime in the fourth century BC, an unknown Egyptian master carved an exquisite portrait in dark-green stone. The statue that included this remarkably lifelike head of a priest, who was probably a citizen of ancient Memphis, may have been damaged when the Persians conquered Egypt in 343 B.C. before it was ritually buried in a temple complex dedicated to the worship of the sacred Apis bull .... After almost two millennia, the head was excavated by August Mariette, a founding figure in French archaeology, under a permit from the Ottoman Pasha. Sent to France as part of a collection of antiquities assembled for the inimitable Bonaparte prince known as Plon-Plon, it found a home in his faux Pompeain palace. After disappearing again, it resurfaced in the personal collection of Edward Perry Warren, a turn-of-the twentieth-century American aesthete, who sold it to the Museum of Fine Arts."--book jacket.

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