mummy portraits

Wooden panel with portrait of a blue-robed woman painted in coloured wax. Cracked. Conservation revealed blue robe in 1975. Presented by Hilda Petrie on the occasion of the Petrie Centenary 1953. Treated at the Courtauld Gallery in 1975; retreated in 1990. Wood of panel identified as lime/linden (Tilia sp.) from sample by Caroline Cartwright at the British Museum, 1995.

Hawara

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early roman Period

LDUCE-UC14692

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology