Mummy Portraits: A Stunning Discovery
The mummy portraits are stunning, with production beginning around 30-40 CE, sixty years after the defeat of Antony.
Examples include portraits of an unknown woman (c.160-70) and a boy called Eutyches (c.100-150).
The Annual Report of the Director of the National Gallery for 1888 announced the display of three painted wooden panels ‘under glass’.
- The panels were almost two thousand years old.
- They had been unearthed the year before from Roman-period cemeteries in Hawara, in the Fayum basin in Egypt.
- They had been placed over the faces of mummies and integrated into their wrappings.
Before arriving at the National Gallery, they had been shown in the Egyptian Hall on Piccadilly, where archaeologist W.M. Flinders Petrie exhibited his discoveries.
They had overlooked a crowded display of complete mummies and other finds from the Fayum.
Author summary: Stunning mummy portraits discovered in Egypt.
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