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The Fayum portraits are the only large body of art from that tradition to have survived. They were formerly, and incorrectly, called Coptic portraits. Mummy portraits have been found across Egypt, but are most common in the Faiyum Basin, particularly from Hawara and the Hadrianic Roman city Antinoopolis. "Faiyum portraits" is generally used as ...
English: Fayum mummy portrait, British museum Round-topped limewood panel bearing encaustic portrait of woman wearing myrtle-wreath and gold jewellery ...
English: Fayum mummy portrait, British museum. Portrait of a military officer in encaustic and tempera, probably on oak: the right panel is split by fissures. The right side and lower left corner are restored in plain wood. The background is painted sandy brown; the lower edge of the panel is unpainted.
An Egyptian Encaustic on Wood Mummy Portrait of a Man, Roman Period, 2nd Quarter of the 3rd century A.D. wearing short beard and hair, with traces of linen wrapping remaining above. Height 16 in. 40.6 cm. PROVENANCE New York private collection (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, May 21st, 1977, no. 396, illus.)
Description: A PAINTED WOOD MUMMY PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 55-70 A.D. Probably from Hawara, painted in encaustic, depicted in her youth in three-quarter right view, with a triangular face and a long neck, her complexion pale, with a pointed chin, thick eye brows, large eyes with heavy lids, a slender nose and a small mouth with full pink lips, her long black hair with snail-like ...
An Encaustic Mummy Portrait of a Man, Roman Period, circa A.D. 200-225 PROVENANCE Theodor Graf (1840-1903), Vienna, 2nd collection Bruno Kertzmar Gallery, Vienna European private collection, circa 1930 by descent to the present owner, 1978
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