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A ROMANO-EGYPTIAN GESSO-PAINTED MUMMY CASE OF A YOUNG WOMAN
1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
With linen backing, depicted with black curly hair, wearing beaded pendant earrings and a lunula necklace, her arms folded in front, each wrist bearing a snake bracelet, an armlet above and a finger ring, clothed in a white short-sleeved tunic with black, blue and red striped border decorated with ochre dotted rosettes, a fringed himation with red striped border round her shoulders, wearing a wreath crowned by a painted vulture with outspread wings surmounted by two maat (truth)-feathers, mounted
18¼ in. (46.3 cm.) high
1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
With linen backing, depicted with black curly hair, wearing beaded pendant earrings and a lunula necklace, her arms folded in front, each wrist bearing a snake bracelet, an armlet above and a finger ring, clothed in a white short-sleeved tunic with black, blue and red striped border decorated with ochre dotted rosettes, a fringed himation with red striped border round her shoulders, wearing a wreath crowned by a painted vulture with outspread wings surmounted by two maat (truth)-feathers, mounted
18¼ in. (46.3 cm.) high