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Mummy portrait of a woman
Mummy portrait of woman. The portrait is painted using the encaustic technique onto lime panels. This was an imported Mediterranean wood and was used for the majority of the Hawara portraits. This panel would have been placed over the face of a mummy.
Height: 39 cm
Width: 20 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given
(1911)
by
British School of Archaeology in Egypt
Middle Roman
100
-
150
150
Accession number: E.102.1911
Primary reference Number: 51330
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Antiquities
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2020) "Mummy portrait"
Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/51330 Accessed: 2021-12-05 14:51:32
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Accession Number: E.GA.5.1943
Accession Number: E.5.1981
Accession Number: E.2.1888
Accession Number: E.GA.3006.1943
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