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© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
Head of a Nubian
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
ClassificationsAncient Egyptian Art

Head of a Nubian

AAT Object Form/Functionsculpture (visual works)
Place CreatedEgypt, Africa
CultureEgyptian
Date1st Century BCE
Credit LineGift in memory of Edward Safani, by partial exchange
Dimensions4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm)
Object number2001.020.001
Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2001 - March 13, 2018
MCCM Permanent Collection Gallery, June 4, 2018 - Present
Published ReferencesGalerie Nefer, Nefer 5 (1987), 20, number 30.
ProvenanceEx private collection, Europe. Ex Micheline Lesser Collection. With Alan Safani [Safani Gallery], New York, New York, purchased November 5, 1985. With Galerie Nefer, Zurich, Switzerland, 1987. Acquired by MCCM from Safani.
Status
On view
Collections
  • Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
1st Century BCE
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
early 2nd Century BCE-1st Century CE
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
1st Century BCE-mid 1st Century CE
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
ca. 1st century BCE-1st century CE
© Bruce M. White, 2008.
1st Century BCE-2nd Century CE
Courtesy of the Georges Ricard Foundation and the California Institute of World Archaeology
mid 1st Century BCE-mid 1st Century CE
Image courtesy Emory Libraries Digitization
1st Century BCE-1st Century CE