Sarcophagus portrait of an Egyptian woman, ca. 1000 BCE, Third Intermediate Period, Egypt at The Field Museum
Looking through images I took of artifacts in Chicago's Field Museum way back in 2005, I saw this sensitive sarcophagus portrait of an Egyptian woman. I had just begun photographing museum collections back then and had not yet developed my method of sequential identification information so I didn't have the full reference I like to provide whenever I feature a particular artifact. The Field Museum also does not provide a convenient database of their collections on their website either so I had to do a bit more digging. I used Google Images to try to locate similar images that might have more description and discovered that this portrait caused quite a stir back in 2009 after Michael Jackson's death because people thought it looked like a portrait of him. An article referred to the piece as 3,000 years old which would place it in the early part of the Third Intermediate Period so I hope that is correct. I found other sarcophagus images at the Field Mus...