Mummy portrait

Museum number:

6-21378a-b

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm210621378a@2db

Alternate number:

804 (field number)

Object count:

2

Description:

Portrait of a young man wearing a white mantle and tunic with purple clavi. He holds a garland of pink flowers and has a crown of gold leaves on his curly hair. Traces of writing in white gypsum on verso of panel.

Collection place:

Cemetery 7 or 8, Tebtunis, Faiyum region

Culture or time period:

Nerva–Antonine Dynasty (96–192 AD)

Collector:

Arthur S. Hunt and Bernard P. Grenfell

Collection date:

1899-1900

Materials:

Encaustic paint and Wood (plant material) (identified by dr. caroline cartwright, british museum, 2016)

Taxon:

Ficus sycomorus

Object type:

archaeology

Object class:

Mummies (bodies), Portraits, and Portraits (figure works)

Department:

Ancient Egypt

Loans:

S1977-1978 #51: Classics (UC Berkeley)/Crawford Hallock Greenewalt Jr. (April 5, 1978–June 7, 1978) and S1997-1998 #1: Fondazione Memmo: Palazzo Ruspoli (July 24, 1997–unknown)