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mummy-portrait
Object Type
mummy-portrait
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
Roman Period
Production date
200
(circa)
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Rubaiyat
Materials
oak
Technique
encaustic
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
Bequeathed by:
Sir Robert Ludwig Mond
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Theodor Graf
Acquisition date
1939
Department
Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number
EA65344
Registration number
1939,0324.209
Conservation
Treatment
: 11 Nov 1994