mummy-portrait
- Museum number
- EA65346
- Description
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Limewood portrait of a woman: the richly bejeweled woman in the panel portrait is portrayed with elegance and sophistication, with sweet, refined features. The necklace inset with precious stones and diadem; the jewellery-detail in added gold leaf.
- Production date
- 160-170 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 55 centimetres (storage board)
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Height: 44.40 centimetres
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Width: 28 centimetres (storage board)
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Width: 15.50 centimetres
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Depth: 1.50 centimetres (storage board)
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Depth: 5.70 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
S. Walker and M. Bierbrier, 'Fayum. Misteriosi volti dall'Egitto' (London, 1997), p. 117 [87];
N. Strudwick, Masterpieces of Ancient Egypt, London 2006, pp. 312-3.
- Bibliographic references
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Doxiadis 1995 / The mysterious Fayum portraits: faces from ancient Egypt. (21)
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Walker & Bierbrier 1997 / Ancient Faces (86)
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Russmann 2001 / Eternal Egypt: Masterworks of Ancient Art from the British Museum (109)
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Parlasca & Seeman 1999 / Augenblicke. Mumienporträts und ägyptische Grabkunst aus römischer Zeit (p.163, no.60)
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Strudwick 2006 / Masterpieces of Ancient Egypt (pp.312-313)
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Newman et al 2013 / The study and conservation of four ancient Egyptian funerary portraits: provenance, conservation history and structural treatment (p.1-13, p.2, fig.1, p.4, table.1, p.6, fig.5, p.8, fig.7, p.9, fig.8, p.10, fig.9, p.11, fig.10) (Portrait A)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1990 24 Mar-10 Jun, Australia, Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, Civilization: Ancient Treasures from the British Museum, cat. no.52
1990 28 Jun-23 Sep, Australia, Melbourne, Museum of Victoria, Civilization: Ancient Treasures from the British Museum, cat. no.52
1997 22 Oct-1998 30 Apr, Italy, Rome, Fondaione Memmo, Ancient Faces
2018 23 Feb – 22 Apr, Nashville, Frist Art Museum, 'Rome; City &Empire'
2018-2019 20 Sep-04 Feb, Canberra, National Museum of Australia, 'Rome; City &Empire'
- Condition
- good (some restoration)
- Acquisition date
- 1939
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA65346
- Registration number
- 1939,0324.211
