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Description: | Portrait of a woman painted in encaustic (hot wax) on a thin wooden panel. Her hair is centrally parted and coiled on top of her head, and this style dates the portrait to reign of Hadrian, c. 117 to 138 AD. The woman wears a purple-red dress with a matching mantle draped over her left shoulder and around her body. A light green under-tunic is just visible. Her jewellery includes two necklaces, one of dark green stones and one of pearls, and a pair of earrings in the shape of gold bars from which three pearls hang.
This portrait was found together with another portrait, 5378.
Technique: Painted, Material: Wood, Paint
Mummy portrait 5379 from Hawara.
mummy portrait.
Condition report image for mummy portrait 5379. Comments added February 2008. | Source: | Manchester Museum | Identifier: | mm.emu.ecatalogue.humanities.106702 | Go to resource |
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