mummy-portrait
- Museum number
- EA74711
- Description
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Limewood panel bearing portrait in encaustic and tempera of naked young man with curly hair.
- Production date
- 80-120
- Dimensions
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Height: 35.80 centimetres
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Thickness: 0.15 centimetres
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Width: 20.75 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Published:
S. Walker and M. Bierbrier, Fayum. Misteriosi volti dall'Egitto, London 1997, p. 76 [48].
- Location
- On display (G62/dc17)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1997 22 Oct-1998 30 Apr, Italy, Rome, Fondaione Memmo, Ancient Faces
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1994
- Acquisition notes
- Portraits NG 1267-1270 were purchased by the National Gallery in 1888 from Petrie for a total of 95l. See information from the NG on file [Nov 2005, NCS]. AES Archive 548.
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA74711
- Registration number
- 1994,0521.9
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: National Gallery 1268
