mummy portraits

Encaustic wax mummy portrait of hair and shoulders of dark curly-haired young man with slight beard and moustache, face left, wearing gold fillet, pink toga and white scarf; on thin wooden panel. See also UC.38060 for this sight no.

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Roman Period

LDUCE-UC19612

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology