AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD MUMMY PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN
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AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD MUMMY PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN

ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA EARLY 2ND CENTURY A.D.

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AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD MUMMY PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN
ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA EARLY 2ND CENTURY A.D.
14 1/8 x 7¼ in. (35.8 x 18.4 cm.)
Provenance
with Blanchard Antiquities, Cairo, 1906.
Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 25 June 1992, lot 44.
Antiquities, Christie's, London, 8 Oct 2000, lot 159.
Antiquities, Christie's, London, 6 Oct 2011, lot 54.
Acquired by the present owner at the above.


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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
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.
H. Zaloscer, Portäts aus dem Wüstensand: Die Mumienbildnisse aus der Oase Fayum, Vienna, 1961, p. 66.
W. H. Peck, Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt, Detroit, 1967, p. 36.
K. Parlasca, Repertorio d'arte dell'egitto greco-romano, Palermo, 1969, Serie B, vol. 1, pp. 57-58, no. 113, pl. 27, 3.
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, "Four 'Fayum Portaits' in the Getty Museum", The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, II, 1975, p. 92.
J-E. Berger and R. Pintaudi, El-Fayum, Milan, 1985, p. 68, colour pl. on p. 69.

David L. Thompson (op. cit. AJA, 77) suggests the this portrait might come from the site of 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 there by Petrie.

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