Mummy of a woman with painted portrait

Details

• Title

  Mummy of a woman with painted portrait

• Associated place

  Africa › Egypt › Faiyum governorate › Hawara (cemetery) (place of excavation)

• Date

  2nd century AD (AD 101 - 200)

• Material and technique

  textiles, painted wood

• Object type

  human remains › human mummy

• Dimensions

  155 cm (height)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by H. Martyn Kennard, 1888.

• Museum location

  Ground floor | Gallery 27 | Ancient Egypt and Nubia

• Museum department

  Antiquities

• Accession no.

  AN1888.831

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