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Painted wooden mummy portrait of Didyma Unknown
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Title/s
Painted wooden mummy portrait of Didyma
Maker/s
Unknown
Category
mummy trappings
Name
mummy portrait
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.
Technique Description
painted
Dimensions
depth 1.5
cm
Period
Roman
Date
A.D. 180 — A.D. 200
Provenance
bequeathed:
Cook, Phyllis M. 1981
(Filtered for: Antiquities)
Inscriptions/Marks
inscription Documentation
Nicholls, R.
Ancient Egyptian painting using beeswax goes on show in Cambridge
[page: ] Cambridge Evening News (
(1982)
Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum
, Cambridge (Cambs.) :
Pevensey Press
(2005) London: Scala [page: 201]
Parlasca, K.
Mumienporträts und verwandte Denkmäler
[page: 201] Material/s
wood
Accession Number
E.5.1981 (Antiquities)
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