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Description: | Wax encaustic portrait on wood panel of a young woman with dark hair and tiny curls on her forehead; skin cream and pink around eyes, nose, mouth and chin with dark eyebrows, pigment patchy, especially around jawline; wearing large gold ball earrings of Pompeian style. Portrait broken into three main longitudinal fragments with other curled pieces at the top edge and a jagged lower edge; almost the whole back is covered with linen and resin (Ex temp no 431). | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ | Rights holder: | University College London | Subjects: | Egyptology | Temporal: | name=Roman Period; start=-30; end=395
name=Late Roman Period; start=250; end=395 | 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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