Fayoum / portrait / Paint / Pigment / Wood
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Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.1798
- Object Name
- portrait
- Lot
- Askren, David
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Egyptian funerary artifacts
- Weight
- 129.8g
- Pierced
- no
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Portrait with large eyes, egg shaped head and long neck. Matt tempera applied directly to surface of thin wooden panel. Perhaps 19th CenturyAcquired by Dr. Askren “from natives in the Fayoum”
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Verbatim Site
- Fayoum
- Production Site
- site
- Countermark
- no
- Exhibition Title
- Faces of Immortality: Egyptian Mummy Masks, Painted Portraits and Canopic Jars in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
- Passionate Curiosities
- Exhibition Curator
- Root, Margaret Cool
- Exhibition Year
- 2015
- Publication Title
- Passionate Curiosities: Tales of Collectors & Collections from the Kelsey Museum
- Faces of Immortality: Egyptian Mummy Masks, Painted Portraits and Canopic Jars in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
- Mummy Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum
- Publication Author
- Talalay, Lauren E.; Cool, Margaret Root
- Root, Margaret Cool
- Thompson, David
- Publication Year
- 2015
- 1979
- 1982
- Class Title
- Archaeology and the Public
- Frauds and Fantastic Claims in Archaeology: Issues in Race and Ethnicity
- Frauds and Fantastic Claims in Archaeology: Issues in Race and Ethnicity (F2019)
- Class Instructor
- Leontis, Artemis
- Young, Lisa
- Class Department
- Classics
- Anthropology
- ANTHRARCH
- Class Number
- 375
- 285.001
- Class Year
- 2015
- 2017
- 2019
- Class Semester
- Winter
- Fall
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 1704 x 2272
- File Size
- 156 KB
- Record
- 0000.00.1798
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1798/0000_00_1798p01.tif
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- Manifest
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/kelsey:0000.00.1798:0000_00_1798P01.TIF
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"Fayoum; portrait; Paint; Pigment; Wood." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1798/0000_00_1798p01.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.