Keywords: Egyptian - Mummy Portrait of a Woman from Fayum, Egypt - Walters 324.jpg This portrait is on thick wood The woman wears a necklace and earrings raised in plaster and gilded There is cloth stuck to the sides and back ca 130 300 Roman Imperial encaustic wood cm 45 7 accession number 32 4 30478 Dikran Kelekian New York and Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown as from Fayum Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1912 Coins and Costume in Late Antiquity Dumbarton Oaks Washington 1993-1994 place of origin Constantinople present-day Istanbul Turkey Walters Art Museum license Fayum mummy portraits Art of Roman Egypt in the Walters Art Museum Paintings in the Walters Art Museum |