mummy portraits

Wax encaustic portrait on wood panel of young woman; dark hair in rows of curls across forehead; skin pigment extremely patchy, predominantly cream, lips maroon, eyes dark brown and white; no trace of jewellery except for ball ear rings; wearing peach/ red chiton and darker red haematon; background blue-grey; protrait virtually complete, in two main pieces, restored from fragments (inculding Temp. No.427, on lefts side as viewed); longitudinally cracked. Traces of oiled bandages from mummy binding at top and lower edge, where there are a few small linen patches; back stained in places by oil.

- Morris L. Bierbrier, Portraits and Masks. Burial Customs in Roman Egypt
- Stevenson, Alice, The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections
- Walker, Susan, Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt
- Picton, Jan, Living Images. Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum

Graeco-Roman Period

wax, wood

LDUCE-UC38103

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology