Mummy Portrait: Boy

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Title Mummy Portrait: Boy
Location Country Egypt
Style Period Ancient Egypt: Roman Period
Description Fayum Mummy Portrait; inscribed in Greek
Subject Portraiture
Creation Date 2nd Century CE
Form painting
Medium encaustic on wood
Dimensions 14-15/16 x 7-1/2"
Inscription/Marks "Eutyches, freedman of Kasanios" then follows either "son of Herakleides Evandros" or "Herakleides, son of Evandros."
Repository Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (USA)
Classes ART 3600: History of Graphic Design
Source Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (USA)
Work ID 8486
Rights Digital Image Copyright University of Utah
ARK ark:/87278/s62c28m2
Setname uu_aah_art
ID 33759
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s62c28m2
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