mummy portraits

Wax portrait on wood of woman, with short black curly hair, wearing silvered glass or coral and gold pendant earrings; and two strings of beads- one of amethyst or garnet and beryl, with gold; and the other of silvered glass or coral and gold. Light purple chiton, with dark purple himation over each shoulder, which has yellow bands at each edge. Middle of portrait lost.

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

Roman Period

100 to 199

wood, wax

LDUCE-UC30088

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology