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Mummy portrait of a young woman, Antinoöpolis, Middle Egypt, 2nd century, Louvre, Paris. This heavily gilt portrait was found in Antinoöpolis in winter 1905/06 by French Archaeologist Alfred Gayet and sold to the Egyptian Museum of Berlin in 1907. Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden ...
Petrie unearthed a number of vivid Fayum mummy portraits in 1911. Hawara is an archaeological site of Ancient Egypt, south of the site of Crocodilopolis ('Arsinoë', also known as 'Medinet al-Faiyum') at the entrance to the depression of the Fayyum oasis. It is the site of a pyramid built by Pharaoh Amenemhat III, who was a Pharaoh of the 12th ...
Faiyum ( / faɪˈjuːm / fy-YOOM; Arabic: الفيوم, romanized :el-Fayyūm, locally [elfæjˈjuːm]) [a] is a city in Middle Egypt. Located 100 kilometres (62 miles) southwest of Cairo, in the Faiyum Oasis, it is the capital of the modern Faiyum Governorate. It is one of Egypt's oldest cities due to its strategic location.
Dimensions. 38 cm × 19 cm (15 in × 7.5 in) Location. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Portrait of the Boy Eutyches, also known as Portrait of Boy, is a portrait by an anonymous artist from Roman Egypt of about 100 to 150 AD. The portrait depicts a young boy, who is named as "Eutyches, freedman of Kasanios" by an inscription.
English: Fayum mummy portrait, British museum. Portrait of a military officer in encaustic and tempera, probably on oak: the right panel is split by fissures. The right side and lower left corner are restored in plain wood. The background is painted sandy brown; the lower edge of the panel is unpainted.
In this general context, the German archaeologist Richard von Kaufmann undertook a short campaign of excavations at Hawara in March 1892; his most important find was the so-called Tomb of Aline. [1] A shaft led to a simple mud-brick -lined pit of 2.8 by 3.5 m which contained eight mummies.
Fayum mummy portraits; Portraiture in ancient Egypt; Metadata. This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to ...
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [as from Fayum] 1912: purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore; 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters; Exhibition history: Coins and Costume in Late Antiquity. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington. 1993-1994. Credit line: Acquired by Henry Walters, 1912: Source