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Description: | Painted panel portrait on thin wood, now in two vertical segments, bearing a portrait of a bearded man with face turned to viewer's right: brown-black hair, red lips, cheek and forehead light brown, brown-red neck, one red dot below neck, red along nose, no garment visible, painting faded and all much obscured by soil and white staining from insect damage (?). Technique uncertain: encaustic? Over lower area coarse woven linen with thick glossy matter (resin?) from mummy-wrappings. Right segment has two vertical cracks from top to centre, one vertical crack from bottom to centre, lesser crack from bottom to lower neck area to right. From a group of miscellaneous cemetery finds originally the share of Jesse Haworth from the 1888 excavations of Flinders Petrie at Hawara, initially presented by Haworth to the Victoria and Albert Museum, and transferred to the Petrie Museum in 2004. According to the mark this is portrait UU: in the excavation day-diary, portrait UU was found on March 23 1888. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ | Rights holder: | University College London | Subjects: | Egyptology | Temporal: | name=Early Roman Period; start=-30; end=149 | Source: | UCL Museums | Identifier: | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/objects/LDU... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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