Mummy portrait

Museum number:
6-21377
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21060021377
Alternate number:
803 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.54/56/63/107
Description:
Portrait of a boy holding a scroll and pen. Height: 30.5 cm; Width/breadth: 19.3 cm
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Cemetery 7 or 8, Tebtunis, Faiyum region
Verbatim coll. place:
Tebtunis (Umm el Baragat)?; C.7 or 8 Cemetery VII or VIII
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
Dimensions:
Frame— height 42 centimeters, Object— width 19.3 centimeters, Frame— depth 4.5 centimeters, Frame— width 29.8 centimeters, Object— height 30.5 centimeters, and Object— depth 1.2 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: Exhibited: "Ancient Egypt," March-Oct. 1966. "Archaeology of the Ancient World," Dec. 1969-May 1970
Loans:
S1962-1963 #48: Division of Social Sciences (CSU Chico) (March 21, 1963–May 9, 1963), S1963-1964 #14: Department of Art History (UC Berkeley)/Darrell Arlynn Amyx (September 16, 1963–November 6, 1963), S1968-1969 #35: California Palace of the Legion of Honor (November 6, 1968–February 7, 1969), S1970-1971 #21: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (October 12, 1970–January 20, 1971), S1977-1978 #51: Department of Classics (UC Berkeley)/Crawford Hallock Greenewalt Jr. (April 5, 1978–June 7, 1978), S2006-2007 #7: Center for Tebtunis Papyri (UC Berkeley) (March 20, 2007–March 21, 2007), S2016-2017 #5: Block Museum of Art (January 2, 2018–April 27, 2018), and S2018-2019 #8: Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley) (September 17, 2019–January 19, 2021)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Mummy portrait, accession number 6-21377, described as Portrait of a boy holding a scroll and pen. Height: 30.5 cm; Width/breadth: 19.3 cm Notice: Image restricted due to its potentially sensitive nature. Contact Museum to request access.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Mummy portrait, accession number 6-21377, described as Portrait of a boy holding a scroll and pen. Height: 30.5 cm; Width/breadth: 19.3 cm Notice: Image restricted due to its potentially sensitive nature. Contact Museum to request access.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Mummy portrait, accession number 6-21377, described as Portrait of a boy holding a scroll and pen. Height: 30.5 cm; Width/breadth: 19.3 cm Notice: Image restricted due to its potentially sensitive nature. Contact Museum to request access.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mummy portrait, accession number 6-21377, described as Portrait of a boy holding a scroll and pen. Height: 30.5 cm; Width/breadth: 19.3 cm Notice: Image restricted due to its potentially sensitive nature. Contact Museum to request access.

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