Reproduction
mummy portraits
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
Wax encaustic portrait on wood panel of youth; short dark hair, clean shaven, skin reddish; traces of binding bandages from mummy above and below portrait, no indication of garments. Portrait intact, joined from two longitudinal pieces.
[nb-NO]Documentation[nb-NO]
- Picton, Jan, Living Images. Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum
Roman Period
[nb-NO]Date[nb-NO]
100 to 199
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]
[nb-NO]Dimensions[nb-NO]
height: 32.5 cms
length: 20.5 cms
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]
LDUCE-UC36348
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
