mummy portraits

Wax encaustic portrait on wood panel of young man with short beard, down moustache, brown eyes, dark skin tone and red lips; dribbles of pink pigment down left side of face; wearing white himation around neck and tunic below. Portrait split longitudinally into five sections, upper part unevenly broken away in jagged steps to level of eyes and below on right side; resin soaked linen patch ahdering to lower left side above binding edge, also patches of linen, resin, wax and gesso plaster on back (Ex Temp No 418) not marked

- Picton, Jan, Living Images. Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum

18th Dynasty early roman Period

LDUCE-UC40697

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology