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Mummy Portrait of a Man   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Unknown authorUnknown author
Title
Mummy Portrait of a Man
title QS:P1476,en:"Mummy Portrait of a Man"
label QS:Len,"Mummy Portrait of a Man"
Description
English: In Roman Egypt (30 BC-AD 324), artists adapted naturalistic painting styles to the ancient custom of making portrait masks for mummies. The portraits were often painted while the subject was in the prime of life and were hung in the home until the person's death. This practice continued in northern Egypt well into the Early Byzantine period.
Date late 1st century AD
date QS:P571,+050-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P4241,Q40719766
Medium encaustic painting on wood
medium QS:P186,Q17443567;P186,Q287,P518,Q861259
Dimensions Framed height: 51 cm (20 in); width: 36 cm (14.1 in); depth: 4.5 cm (1.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,51U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,36U174728
dimensions QS:P5524,4.5U174728
; Actual old panel max. height: 39.4 cm (15.5 in); width: 20.5 cm (8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,39.4U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,20.5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
32.3
Place of creation Faiyum
Object history
  • H. Martyn Kennard, London [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase
  • Sale, Sotheby's, London, July 16, 1912
  • Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913 [mode of acquisition unknown]
  • 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Exhibition history
  • Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit. 1967.
  • Beyond the Pharaohs: Egypt and the Copts in the Second to Seventh Centuries A.D.. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1989.
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters, 1913
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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Mummy portrait from the late 1st century CE. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland

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