Reproduction
Object Category
mummy portraits
Description
Almost complete wax encaustic portrait on wood panel of man; pigment flaked away over much of surface, but enough remains to indicate dark hair and eyebrows, left eye clearer than right, skin pink/cream, lips pink, probably moustache and stubble; wearing possible cream chiton. Longitudinal section missing from left edge (as viewed), cracked from upper and lower edges, traces of mark left by binding bandages of mummy above portrait. Left edge section and right sliver found and joined in 1994. From Hawara cemetery, body WW.
Collection Place
Hawara
Collection Place Notes
Cemetery
Publications
- Picton, Jan, Living Images. Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum
Production Period
Graeco-Roman Period
Production Date
100 AD - 200 AD
Material
Dimensions
height: 39.05 cms
width: 14.85 cms
Accession Number
LDUCE-UC38060
Administration Name
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
