mummy portraits

Wax portrait on wood of woman wearing gold necklace and earrings; and a purple chiton, and himation of darker purple with gold bands over left shoulder. Hair is smoothly parted away to either side. Linen fragments adhering to surface. From Hawara Cemetery Mummy No.44

Hawara

Hawara Cemetery Mummy No.44

- Walker, Susan, Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt
- Picton, Jan, Living Images. Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum

Trajan

wood, wax, linen

LDUCE-UC30081

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology