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Uploaded on:: 2024-07-05 10:51:06.0
File size:: 6.24 MB
Extension:: JPG
Dimensions:: 4256 x 2832 pixels

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Digital Media Bank ID:

146153

Original Filename:

JP3_8120.JPG

Description:

Mummy portrait. Found fixed over the face of a mummified body in the Roman cemetery at Hawara in Egypt. It is painted in coloured beeswax onto a piece of lime wood.

The portrait shows how the man wanted to be remembered after his death. He is shown as young and healthy. His white robes are a deliberate display of status, distinguishing him as a member of the elite class of Romans who had settled in Egypt. The portrait was probably commissioned after the man had died and then set into the wrappings of his mummified body.

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Categories:

Timeline / Ancient Egypt

Timeline / Roman (43-410)

Collections / Ancient Egypt

Learning Themes / Ancient Egypt

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Copyright & Re-use

Credit:

Brighton & Hove Museums / James Pike Photography Ltd.

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Licence:

CC BY-SA

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Caption:

Portrait

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Object or Artwork info

Date Created (of Object / Artwork):

2nd Century

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Size:

6.24 MB; 4256 x 2832 pixels; 360 x 240 mm (print at 300 DPI);

Orientation:

Landscape

Administrative info

Linked Accession no.:

FA000412

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