Funerary Portrait of a Woman
c. 138–92 CE
- Medium
- encaustic on linen
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Overall: 26 x 19 cm (10 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Egypt, Roman Empire, Antonine
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
So-called mummy portraits were apparently painted during the owners' lives and hung in their homes. At the time of the owner's death, the portrait was taken down, cut from its frame, and trimmed to fit the deceased's mummy, to which it was bound. It was at that time also that the gilding on the center painting was added.
