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Mummy portrait

Description

Mummy-portrait in encaustic waxes on a wooden panel, depicting a woman wearing a red tunic and elaborate jewellery, excavated by Petrie: Ancient Egyptian, Hawara, Middle Egypt, Roman Period, c. AD 110-130

Museum reference

A.1951.160

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Mummy portrait, Portrait-board

Production information

Unknown
Hawara, Middle Egypt, ANCIENT EGYPT

Date

Roman Period

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Wood, Wax, Gold

Collection place(s)

Hawara, Middle Egypt, ANCIENT EGYPT

Associations

British School of Archaeology in Egypt
Excavator: Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, Professor Sir, 1853 - 1942
Egyptian Research Students Association [Edinburgh and Glasgow]

Exhibitions

  • Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (08 Feb 2019)
    National Museum of Scotland

  • Ancient Faces (20 Jul 1997)
    British Museum

  • Egyptian Gallery, 2003 - 2008 (2003 - 2008)
    Royal Scottish Museum

  • Pittura Romana (24 Sep 2009 - 30 Mar 2010)
    Scuderie del Quirinale

  • Ancient Egypt (29 Jul 2011)
    National Museum of Scotland

References

Petrie 1911: Roman Portraits and Memphis (IV) (London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt) XXVI [50]

Petrie 1913: Hawara Portfolio (London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt) pl.XVII

Parlasca 1969: Ritratti di Mummie. Repertorio d’arte dell’Egitto greco-romano. (I, Palermo: Fondazione “Ignazio Mormino” del Banco di Sicilia, & II-III, Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider).53 [98], pl. 23.2

Stefanelli 1992 : L’oro dei Romani: gioielli di età imperiale (Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider) [30], fig.29

CORCORAN, L 1995. Portrait Mummies from Roman Egypt (I-IV Centuries A.D.), with a Catalog of Portrait Mummies in Egyptian Museums. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilisation 55 (Chicago: Chicago University Press) 9 [27], 21

DOXIADIS, E 1995. The Mysterious Fayum Portraits (London: Thames & Hudson) 206 [72]

WALKER S & M BIERBRIER 1997. Ancient Faces. Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt (London: British Museum Press): 57-58 [33]

RUSSO, S 1999. I Gioielli nei papiri di età greco-romana (Florence: Istituto papirologico G. Vitelli): 342

VAN DER MEER, M 2008. “Trendy Translations in the Septuagint of Isiah. A Study of the Vocabulary of the Greek Isiah 3, 18-23 in the Light of Contemporary Sources”, in Karrer & Kraus (eds) 2008: 591

Manley, B and Dodson, A., (2010) Life Everlasting. National Museums Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins (Edinburgh: NMS Enterprises Ltd.), Cat.57, p.135

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