mummy portraits

Portrait of man, pained on wood. Black moustache, black hair below lower lip and fringe beard. In white robe with yellow facings. In three pieces, damaged by white ants. From Kafr Ammar (Tarkhan) tomb 340. Wood identified from sample taken by Caroline Cartwright, British Museum, 1995, at Jodrell Laboratory Kew Gardens as fir (Abies species); binding medium identified at National Gallery as egg tempera but in 2016 identified by the Getty Conservation Institute as animal glue.

- Ramer, B., The Technology, Examination and Conservation of the Fayum Portraits in the Petrie Museum, 3
- Picton, Jan, Living Images. Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum

early roman Period

LDUCE-UC14768

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology