Boston Green Head

Boston Green Head
Material	Greywacke
Created	380 – 332 BC
Discovered	1858
Present location	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Identification	04.1749

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]

See also

• Berlin Green Head

References

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

Further reading

• 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.