Portrait of a young man wearing a white mantle and tunic with purple clavi. He holds a garland of pink flowers and has a crown of gold leaves on his curly hair. Traces of writing in white gypsum on verso of panel.
Collection place:
Cemetery 7 or 8, Tebtunis, Faiyum region
Culture or time period:
Nerva–Antonine Dynasty (96–192 AD)
Collector:
Arthur S. Hunt and Bernard P. Grenfell
Collection date:
1899-1900
Materials:
Encaustic paint and Wood (plant material) (identified by dr. caroline cartwright, british museum, 2016)
Taxon:
Ficus sycomorus
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Mummies (bodies), Portraits, and Portraits (figure works)
Department:
Ancient Egypt
Loans:
S1977-1978 #51: Department of Classics (UC Berkeley)/Crawford Hallock Greenewalt Jr. (April 5, 1978–June 7, 1978) and S1997-1998 #1: Fondazione Memmo: Palazzo Ruspoli (July 24, 1997–unknown)