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Source Description
The woman in this mummy portrait wears a gilt wreath in her hair and is on a gilt background. There is cloth stuck on the top near the edges.
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Document identity
localId
37917
label
Panel Portrait of a Woman
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obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
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1
Source metadata
id
37917
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Panel Portrait of a Woman
description
The woman in this mummy portrait wears a gilt wreath in her hair and is on a gilt background. There is cloth stuck on the top near the edges.
provenance
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [as from Fayum]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
2nd century CE (Roman Imperial)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
mummy portraits
death masks
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
L: 16 9/16 in. (42 cm)
Source extras
cul
Roman
med
encaustic (?) on wood panel, cloth
creator_ids
6182
collection_ids
ROM
EGY
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
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1
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0
type
photo
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378681245608f327