Mummy portrait (reproduction)
- Museum number:
- 5-374
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050000374
- Accession number:
- Acc.6
- Description:
- Copy of Greek mummy portrait from the Fayum Egypt Original painted in the 3rd century Originals discovered by Flinders Petrie are in National Gallery London. Painted in wax colors applied with brush to cestrum. Copies by Eleanor Harrison Supplee
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Faiyum region, Lower Egypt
- Verbatim coll. place:
- London
- Maker or artist:
- Eleanor Harrison Suplee
- Collector:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Materials:
- Encaustic paint and Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- archaeology
- Object class:
- Mummies (bodies), Portraits, and Portraits (figure works)
- Accession date:
- October 1, 1899
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Comment:
- Hearst Inventory: copy
- Images:
- Legacy documentation: