Object name: Mummy portrait / Collection place: Nile River Valley, Egypt / Culture or time period: United Roman Empire (27 BC–394 AD) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Mummy portrait, accession number 6-21375, described as Portrait of a woman. Fragment showing upper part of face. Height: 29.0 cm, Width/breadth: 19.5 cm

Hearst Museum object titled Mummy portrait, accession number 6-21383, described as Portrait of a woman with dark hair. She wears a pink tunic with black clavi. Her right hand has a gold band on the third finger and holds a pink garland.

Hearst Museum object titled Mummy portrait, accession number 6-21379, described as Portrait of a bearded man. Height: 33.7 cm; width/breadth: 22.5 cm

Hearst Museum object titled Mummy portrait, accession number 6-21381, described as Portrait of woman with dark hair in a top knot secured with gold pins. She wears a pink tunic with black clavi. Her right hand has a gold band on the third finger and holds a pink garland.

Hearst Museum object titled Mummy portrait, accession number 6-21380, described as Portrait of old man on thin wood, broken, cloth adhering. Roman tomb.

Hearst Museum object titled Mummy portrait, accession number 6-21374, described as Portrait of a woman with dark hair parted in center and gathered in a topknot. She wears a pink tunic with black clavi, possibly edged in gold, and a dark purplish/brown mantle. Yellow earth pigments used to indicate gold on clavi edges, earrings and chain necklace. A white underdrawing is visible in areas of loss. Susan Walker dates to reign of Hadrian (A.D. 117-138).

Hearst Museum object titled Mummy portrait, accession number 6-21378a, described as Mummy portrait with sketch on reverse. Obverse side: nearly effaced, finished encaustic female portrait; Reverse side: sketch of female subject in carbon ink with Greek instructions for artist.

Hearst Museum object titled Mummy portrait, accession number 6-21382, described as Portrait of a woman with dark hair in a topknot. She wears a pink tunic.

Hearst Museum object titled Mummy portrait, accession number 6-21376, described as Portrait of a woman with hair coiled in a knot, wearing a white undertunic, red mantle and tunic with black clavi and a chain necklace and bar earrings with three suspended pearls. Partial inscription (Thaubarion?) above proper right shoulder. Susan Walker dates to 125-40 CE.