mummy portraits

Wax encaustic portrait on wood panel of a man; dark hair in curls, skin reddish-brown, lips deep pink, eyes dark brown and white. Head faces towards right. Broken off at neck. Cream surround to portrait. Split longitudinally into three main sectiions; left and central panels complete, but right is fragmentary around edge. Damage to paint on hair and neck. (Ex Temp number 430). Marked 'BB' in pencil on reverse. From Hawara cemetery, Body BB.

Hawara

Cemetery

- Cartwright, C., Egyptian Mummy Portraits: examining the woodworker's craft, p.110
- Jaeschke, Richard L., Mechanical Cleaning and the Conservation of Portraits from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
- Picton, Jan, Living Images. Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum

early roman Period

wax, wood

LDUCE-UC38315

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology