Mummy portrait; female; black hair centrally parted with small ringlets across forehead; gold chain around neck with central medallion; earrings of gold and pearls; red robe with black shoulder stripes; distemper on chalk ground.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson and M. Boissé
Collection place:
Faiyum, Faiyum region, Lower Egypt
Verbatim coll. place:
Kerke; Faiyum
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
7/12/1900
Materials:
Paint (coating) (analyzed by joy mazurek, getty conservation institute, 2015) and Wood (plant material) (identified by caroline cartwright, british museum, 2016)
Taxon:
Ficus sycomorus
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Mummies (bodies), Portraits, and Portraits (figure works)
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
width 19 centimeters and height 35 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: Formerly 8-204. I11. Art of the Late Antique, Poses Institute of Fine Arts, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Exhibit catalog, Dec. 18, 1968-Feb. 16, 1969 P1. X, described p. 49.
Loans:
S1962-1963 #6: Art Department (UC Berkeley) (August 3, 1962–February 1, 1963), S1963-1964 #14: Department of Art History (UC Berkeley)/Darrell Arlynn Amyx (September 16, 1963–November 6, 1963), S1963-1964 #95: Department of Art History (UC Berkeley) (June 24, 1964–September 10, 1964), S1964-1965 #15: Department of Art History (UC Berkeley)/Darrell Arlynn Amyx (September 10, 1964–November 5, 1964), S1968-1969 #25-B: Rose Art Museum (Brandeis Univ.) (October 31, 1968–February 27, 1969), S1970-1971 #21: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (October 12, 1970–January 20, 1971), and S1987-1988 #20: University of Missouri, Columbia (September 15, 1987–September 24, 1987)