mummy portraits

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

Hawara

Cemetery

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early roman Period

LDUCE-UC19609

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology