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Fayum mummy portrait.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Title
Fayum mummy portrait.
Description

Portrait of a woman in encaustic on limewood: a large crack splits the panel from top to bottom through the proper right eye, and a shorter crack runs through the left eye. The paint surface is damaged in several places. Traces of the mummy wrappings appear at the upper corners. The background was painted in bluish grey with long brush-strokes.

The figure appears very large in relation to the background and is shown in three-quarter view. She wears a claret-coloured tunic with a very dark crimson clavus edged with gold, visible on the proper right side. A mantle of mauvish tone is draped around the shoulders.

The woman wears gold ball earrings (painted with white highlights) typical of the later first century AD. She wears around her neck a gold chain with pendant crescent with ball-shaped terminals: this too is painted with creamy-white highlights. It is not out of the question that she originally had an ornamental chain across the hair, separating the bun on the crown from the locks in front - a feature of other Neronian portraits. Of this, nothing survives but a greyish ground. The front hair is arranged around the brow in two banks of snail-shaped curls, expanded to four above the ears. Locks fall behind the ears to either side of the neck; the necklace has been painted over the lock on the proper right side.

The eyes (especially the proper left eye) are large and rounded, with arched eyebrows. The nose is rather shorter than the norm; the lips are full and painted rose pink. The creamy flesh is tinted pink on the cheeks and chin, and a creamy-white highlight runs down the nose and above and below the lips.
Date 55-70 AD
Medium wax lime wood, encaustic
Dimensions length: 35.8 cm (14 in); width: 20.2 cm (7.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2043,35.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,20.2U174728
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Accession number
Museum number EA74716
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA74716

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current20:12, 25 August 2020Thumbnail for version as of 20:12, 25 August 20202,520 × 4,365 (3.97 MB)Aavindraalarger
17:33, 31 January 2019Thumbnail for version as of 17:33, 31 January 2019463 × 784 (192 KB)Shakko{{Information |Description= |Source= |Date= |Author= |Permission= |other_versions= }}
23:43, 25 November 2010Thumbnail for version as of 23:43, 25 November 2010536 × 915 (173 KB)AmandajmReverted to version as of 02:55, 9 November 2004 NO! Do not photo shop an image and upload over the original!
23:58, 24 November 2010Thumbnail for version as of 23:58, 24 November 2010536 × 915 (461 KB)Aavindraafurther edited (removed gaps)
02:55, 9 November 2004Thumbnail for version as of 02:55, 9 November 2004536 × 915 (173 KB)EloquenceFayum mummy portrait. Scanned and edited by Eloquence. {{PD}} Category:Fayum mummy portraits

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