mummy portraits

Wax encaustic portrait on wood of a girl with short (or pulled back) hair; face damaged by a tool; intact left eye aquamarine blue. Central gold leaf pendant on head and small gold earrings; gold chain necklace with oval pendant in centre. Dark purple red chiton and brown himation; background pale blue. Panel split longitudinally, in three major sections.

- Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, Roman Portraits and Memphis (IV), p.8
- Doxiadis, Euphrosyne, Mysterious Fayum portraits. Faces from ancient Egypt
- Walker, Susan, Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt
- Cartwright, C., Egyptian Mummy Portraits: examining the woodworker's craft
- Picton, Jan, Living Images. Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum

Graeco-Roman Period

100 to 200

LDUCE-UC36215

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology