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Description: | Gilt and painted cartonnage upper-body mummy-case element with depiction of deceased in Greek style. Face and neck and raised relief rings on both hands and serpent bracelets on both arms gilt, other areas painted: black relief curls of hair between ears, mainly lost; pink lower arms, red drapery, green garland with clasps in right hand. Cracked, central face area crushed, damage around face and on upper arm areas, lower head of serpent bracelet on right arm missing. 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. | 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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