Reproduction
Object Category
mummy portraits
Description
Wax encaustic portrait on wood panel of a man; dark hard with beard, skin reddish brown, eyes dark brown and white. White/cream garment over shoulders, back-ground light. Damaged in centre with fragments missing, longitudinally cracked, some detached fragments. Tapered above head with section at right corner missing; patches of two lines of resin soaked lined adhering to back. (Ex, Temp No 432). From Hawara cemetery.
Publications
- Picton, Jan, Living Images. Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum
Production Period
Graeco-Roman Period
Production Date
100 to 199
Material
Dimensions
height: 42.8 cms
length: 19.5 cms
Accession Number
LDUCE-UC38769
Administration Name
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology