Reserve Funeral Head, Alexandria National Museum
Reserve Funeral Head, Alexandria National Museum

Exhibit from the Alexandria Museum. A funerary sculture in the form of a limstone human head. Such heads were placed in the burial chamber. The reserve head was intended to act as a substitute head of the deceased in the afterlife.

Ref: CMF_4924

Date: 17/03/2009

Location: Alexandria Egypt

Photographer: Clive M Fox

Reserve Funeral Head, Alexandria National Museum

Exhibit from the Alexandria Museum. A funerary sculture in the form of a limstone human head. Such heads were placed in the burial chamber. The reserve head was intended to act as a substitute head of the deceased in the afterlife.

Ref: CMF_4924

Date: 17/03/2009

Location: Alexandria Egypt

Photographer: Clive M Fox