File:Fayum mummy portrait, female (c. 100-140 AD), Christie's.jpg
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[edit]DescriptionFayum mummy portrait, female (c. 100-140 AD), Christie's.jpg |
AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD MUMMY PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 100-140 A.D. Painted in the tempera technique, depicting an elderly woman, her graying black hair center parted, brushed around the face and toward the back of the head, wisps surrounding her hairline, her sallow complexion with several thick wrinkles, including two horizontal lines along the forehead, two vertical lines above the bridge of her long hooked nose, thinner aging lines along her cheeks and naso-labial folds, depicted with large dark brown eyes, the preserved pupil gazing upward, the lids rose-colored, below thick black brows, her full lips closed, with naturalistic shading denoting the contours and shadows throughout, wearing drop earrings threaded with three pearls, on a blue-gray ground 10 in. (25.4 cm.) high Provenance Augustus Pitt Rivers, Dorset, acquired in the 19th century. George Pitt-Rivers, Dorset. Property of Mrs. Stella Pitt-Rivers; Sotheby's, London, 10 December 1984, lot 154. with Jack Ogden, London, 1985. with Charles Ede, London. |
Date | CIRCA 100-140 A.D. |
Source | [1] |
Author | AnonymousUnknown author |
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File change date and time | 15:38, 2 February 2019 |
Y and C positioning | Centered |
DateTime subseconds | 27 |
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Image width | 1,413 px |
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Date and time of digitizing | 18:53, 28 April 2011 |
Date metadata was last modified | 18:53, 28 April 2011 |