Mummy portrait

Description

Oblong mummy portrait of a young woman in tempera painting on a wood panel: Ancient Egyptian, Rubbayyat, Roman Period, 2nd century AD

Museum reference

A.1902.70

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Mummy portrait

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

2nd century

Style / Culture

Roman Period, Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Wax, Wood

Collection place(s)

el-Rubaiyat, Faiyum, Middle Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

References

Walker and Bierbrier, 1991, Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt, no. 93, p. 100-1.

Borg, Barbara E., 2010, Painted Funerary Portraits. In Willeke Wendrich (ed.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Los Angeles, p. 8. http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0021bx22