Reproduction
Object Category
mummy portraits
Description
Encaustic wax mummy portrait of head and shoulders of curly-haired fair youth, face right, on thin wood panel, broken at bottom. Portrait find no.38 in Petrie 1911 excavations at Hawara. Cf Petrie Notebook 37, Hawara 1911, p.39, and Petrie Notebook 38B, Hawara 1911, p.61
Collection Place
Hawara
Collection Place Notes
Cemetery
Publications
- Doxiadis, Euphrosyne, Mysterious Fayum portraits. Faces from ancient Egypt, cat.no.69, pp. 77, 205
- Aubert, M.E., Portraits de l'Egypte Romaine
- Daszewski, W.A., Mummy portraits from Northern Egypt: the necropolis in Marina el-Alamein
- Ramer, B., technology, examination and conservation of the Fayum portraits in the Petrie Museum
- Walker, Susan, Fayum Misteriosi volti dall'Egitto Rome
- Walker, Susan, Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt
- Parlasca, Klaus, Augenblicke. Mumienportrats und agyptische Grabkunst aus romischer Zeit
- Aubert, M.E., Portraits de l'Egypte Romaine
- Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, Hawara Portfolio: Paintings of the Roman Age
- Cartwright, C., Egyptian Mummy Portraits: examining the woodworker's craft
- Picton, Jan, Living Images. Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum
Production Period
early roman Period
Material
Dimensions
height: 30 cms
width: 22.5 cms
Accession Number
LDUCE-UC19609
Administration Name
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology