mummy portraits

Encaustic wax mummy portrait of head and shoulders of curly-headed male youth with light beard and moustache, face left, on thin wood panel. From Hawara cemetery.

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Roman Period

wax, wood

LDUCE-UC19610

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology