mummy portraits

Panel portrait painted in encaustic, cut at upper corners for insertion in wrappings of mummified body, depicting a woman with short hairstyle, separated curls around brow, wearing deep red purple tunic with dark purple clavus band, gold ball earrings, gold bead necklace with gold ring pendant; the woman is identified in Greek letters either side of neck as Isarous, an Egyptian name in Greek form, one of the only encaustic panel portraits with name. Petrie portrait DD from the 1888 excavations he directed at Hawara.

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early roman Period

encaustic wax, wood

LDUCE-UC19611

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology