EARLY 2ND CENTURY A.D.

细节

A ROMANO-EGYPTIAN ENCAUSTIC PAINTED WOODEN FAYUM PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN
EARLY 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Her long hair coiled up in a chignon on the top of her head, with short fringed curls around her face and across her forehead, wearing a white tunic with purple clavi, and mantle draped over her left shoulder, assembled from two or three different encaustic portraits, framed and glazed
141/8 x 7¼ in. (35.8 x 18.4 cm.)

来源

Blanchard Antiquities, Cairo, 1906: sold Sotheby's, New York, 25 June 1992, lot 44.

注意事项

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品专文

PUBLISHED:
H. Zaloscer, Porträts aus dem Wüstensand: Die Mumienbildnisse aus der Oase Fayum, Vienna, 1961, p. 66; K. Parlasca, Repertorio d'arte dell'egitto greco-romano, Palermo, 1969, Serie B, vol. 1, pp. 57-58, no. 113, pl. 27, 3; Catalogue of a collection of Egyptian antiquities brought together and presented ... by Mr. Edward Drummond Libbey, Toledo Museum of Art, 1906, p. 32, no. 172; W. H. Peck, Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt, Detroit, 1967, p. 36; D. L. Thompson, A Patchwork Fayum in Toledo, American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 77, no. 4, October 1973, pp. 438-439, pl. 88; D. L. Thompson, The Artists of the Mummy Portraits, Malibu, 1976, p. 8, fig. 10; D. L. Thompson, Four 'Fayum Portraits' in the Getty Museum, The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, II, 1975, p. 92; and J-E. Berger and R. Pintaudi, El-Fayum, Milan, 1985, p. 68, colour pl. on p. 69.

David L. Thompson (op. cit. AJA, 77) attributes this portrait to Hawara, and compares it to examples now in Baltimore (inv. 32.3), Brooklyn Museum (inv. 11.600 B), and the National Gallery, London (inv. 2913), all excavated by Petrie at Hawara.