mummy portraits

Wax encaustic portrait on wood panel of youth; short dark hair, clean shaven, skin reddish; traces of binding bandages from mummy above and below portrait, no indication of garments. Portrait intact, joined from two longitudinal pieces.

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

Roman Period

100 to 199

wood, wax

LDUCE-UC36348

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology