Portrait of a woman with hair coiled in a knot, wearing a white undertunic, red mantle and tunic with black clavi and a chain necklace and bar earrings with three suspended pearls. Partial inscription (Thaubarion?) above proper right shoulder. Susan Walker dates to 125-40 CE.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Cemetery 7 or 8, Tebtunis, Faiyum region
Verbatim coll. place:
Tebtunis (Umm el Baragat)?; C.7 or 8 Cemetery VII or VIII
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 caroline cartwright, british museum, 2016)
Taxon:
Ficus sycomorus
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Mummies (bodies), Portraits, and Portraits (figure works)
Department:
Ancient Egypt
Dimensions:
thickness 1.1 centimeters, height 31.7 centimeters, and width 23 centimeters
Loans:
S1962-1963 #48: Division of Social Sciences (CSU Chico) (March 21, 1963–May 9, 1963), S1963-1964 #14: Department of Art History (UC Berkeley)/Darrell Arlynn Amyx (September 16, 1963–November 6, 1963), S1977-1978 #51: Department of Classics (UC Berkeley)/Crawford Hallock Greenewalt Jr. (April 5, 1978–June 7, 1978), S2009-2010 #1: California State University, Bakersfield (September 14, 2009–November 16, 2009), S2015-2016 #3: Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley) (May 5, 2016–August 2, 2016), S2016-2017 #5: Block Museum of Art (January 2, 2018–April 27, 2018), and S2018-2019 #8: Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley) (September 17, 2019–January 19, 2021)