mummy portraits

Wax encaustic portrait on wood panel of a woman; dark hair with four rows of curls across forehead, skin dark cream/brown, lips pink/brwon, eyes dark brown and white, gold double snake earrings, gold necklace with? pearls, wearing dark red/ orange chiton with darker haematon. Portrait split longitudinally into three main sections, top edge split and section missing from top right; portion missing from lower right of central section. Damage to paint on face and neck. Linene fragments adhering to bottom left around the clothing. (Ex. Tem,p. No. 438.). From Hawara cemetery.

Hawara

Cemetery

- Morris L. Bierbrier, Portraits and Masks. Burial Customs in Roman Egypt
- Picton, Jan, Living Images. Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum

Graeco-Roman Period

100 AD - 200 AD

LDUCE-UC38314

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology