Reproduction
Object Category
mummy portraits
Description
Portrait of man, pained on wood. Black moustache, black hair below lower lip and fringe beard. In white robe with yellow facings. In three pieces, damaged by white ants. From Kafr Ammar (Tarkhan) tomb 340. Wood identified from sample taken by Caroline Cartwright, British Museum, 1995, at Jodrell Laboratory Kew Gardens as fir (Abies species); binding medium identified at National Gallery as egg tempera buy in 2016 identified by the Getty Conservation Institute as animal glue.
Publications
- Picton, Jan, Living Images. Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum
Production Period
early roman Period
Material
Technique
Dimensions
length: 31.2 cms maximum
overall width: 18 cms
Accession Number
LDUCE-UC14768
Administration Name
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
