mummy-portrait

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Object Type
Museum number: EA65344
Description: Oblong oak panel bearing encaustic portrait of woman wearing pearl and gold earrings and loop-in-loop gold chain with central medallion over purple tunic.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 200 (circa)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Rubaiyat
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 38 centimetres; Width: 23 centimetres
Curator's comments: Published: S. Walker and M. Bierbrier, Fayum. Misteriosi volti dall'Egitto, London 1997, p. 122 [91]. Portraits: De l’Egypte Romaine, Paris 1998, pp.146-147 [91].
Bibliographic references: Doxiadis 1995 / The mysterious Fayum portraits: faces from ancient Egypt. (28); Walker & Bierbrier 1997 / Ancient Faces (90); Paris 1998 / Portraits de l'Egypte Romaine : Paris, Musee du Louvre, 5 Octobre 1998 - 4 Janvier 1999. (no.91); Parlasca & Seeman 1999 / Augenblicke. Mumienporträts und ägyptische Grabkunst aus römischer Zeit (p.193, no.96)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 1997 22 Oct-1998 30 Apr, Italy, Rome, Fondaione Memmo, Ancient Faces
Condition: fair (incomplete -lacks bottom right corner)
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1939
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA65344
Registration number: 1939,0324.209
Conservation

Free entry