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Mummy Portrait

Object Number:E16212
Current Location: Collections Storage
Provenience: Egypt
Hawara
Date Made: 100-199 CE
Early Date: 100
Late Date: 199
Section:Egyptian
Materials:Wood
Pigment
Wax
Iconography:Boy
Height: 43 cm
Width: 20 cm
Credit Line:Gift of W. M. Flinders Petrie, 1912
Other Number:E462 - Other Number
12322 - Original Number

Description

Encaustic portrait on wood of a young boy (?). "Fayum portrait."

Current & Past Exhibitions:

The Classical World: Rome ( Apr 1958 - 1975) View Objects in Exhibition
World\'s Columbian Exposition Exhibits: Objects from the Flinders Petrie and Egyptian Exploration Fund ( Jan 1893 - Dec 1893) View Objects in Exhibition
Roman Sculpture Gallery (1975 - 2000) View Objects in Exhibition

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