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A ROMANO-EGYPTIAN GESSO-PAINTED AND GILDED MUMMY CASE OF A YOUNG WOMAN
1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
With linen backing and gilded face and jewellery, depicted with black curly hair, wearing beaded hoop earrings, a lunula necklace, bracelets and a finger-ring, her arms folded in front, clothed in a short-sleeved tunic with black, blue and white-striped border, a fringed himation with striped border around her shoulders, wearing a painted plaster laurel wreath, the back of her head painted with a frieze of four squatting deities, two holding was (dominion)-sceptres, flanked by Ba (soul)-birds, under her arms a depiction of the mummified deceased flanked by uraei and a squatting deity, repaired, mounted
15 in. (38 cm.) high
1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
With linen backing and gilded face and jewellery, depicted with black curly hair, wearing beaded hoop earrings, a lunula necklace, bracelets and a finger-ring, her arms folded in front, clothed in a short-sleeved tunic with black, blue and white-striped border, a fringed himation with striped border around her shoulders, wearing a painted plaster laurel wreath, the back of her head painted with a frieze of four squatting deities, two holding was (dominion)-sceptres, flanked by Ba (soul)-birds, under her arms a depiction of the mummified deceased flanked by uraei and a squatting deity, repaired, mounted
15 in. (38 cm.) high