Title:
Painted wooden mummy portrait of Didyma
Maker:
Unknown
Category:
mummy trappings
Name:
mummy portrait
Date:
180 — 200
Period:
Roman
Description:
female mummy portrait, painted. This portrait is painted in encaustic and tempera on sycamore wood. An inscription in Greek indicates that the owner of this portrait was a girl named 'Didyma' who was seven years of age when she died. The shape of the panel is typical of those from Antinoopolis.
Production
Place:
Egypt
Production
Place (legacy):
Egypt, production, country
Material:
wood
Technique
Description:
painted
Dimension(s):
depth, 1.5, cm
height, 34.8, cm, maximum
width, 19.2, cm, maximum
Acquisition:
bequeathed; 1981; Cook, Phyllis M.
Inscription:
inscription
Documentation:
, The Fitzwilliam Museum1982. Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum.Cambridge (Cambs.): Pevensey Pressp. 201
Parlasca, K.. Mumienporträts und verwandte Denkmäler.p. 201
Nicholls, R.. Ancient Egyptian painting using beeswax goes on show in Cambridge.
Source Title: Cambridge Evening News()
Accession:
Object Number: E.5.1981
(Antiquities)
(record id: 63185; input: 2003-03-25; modified: 2012-01-10)
(Picture Cabinet reference : 701837)
Permanent
Identifier:
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