| Title |
Egyptian Art [065] Fayum Portraits (002) |
| Collection Name and Number |
P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection |
| Photo Number |
Box 10, Egypt, Painting, 15 |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1969 |
| Subject |
Painting--Egypt--Photographs; Portraits, Ancient--Egypt--Photographs; Mummy portraits--Egypt--Photographs; Women--Art--Photographs; Antinoöpolis (Extinct city)--Egypt--Photographs; Egypt; Art; Mummy portraits |
| Spatial Coverage |
Egypt |
| Description |
Photo showing Fayum portrait of a woman |
| Caption on Slide |
Fayum portrait of a woman. |
| Additional Information |
Image was scanned from color slide. Note: Similar image can be found on ARTstor. Note: Similar image can also be found on Musée du Louvre website: http://www.louvre.fr/en/recherche-globale?f_search_cles=Portrait+of+a+woman%2C+known+as+%22L%27Europ%C3%A9enne%22+ Note: Fayum portrait, any of the funerary portraits dating from the Roman period (1st to the 4th century) found in Egyptian tombs throughout Egypt but particularly at the oasis of al-Fayyūm. Depictions of the head and bust of the deceased, the portraits are executed either on wooden tablets (about 17 by 9 inches [about 43 by 23 cm]) and placed under the bandages covering the mummy's face, or on the linen shroud itself. They are painted in tempera or in pigments mixed with liquid beeswax.--Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. |
| Type |
Image |
| Creator |
Tierney, Lennox |
| Rights Management |
This material may be protected by copyright. Permission required for use in any form. For further information please contact the Multimedia Archivist, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah. |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6df77kw |
| Digitization Specifications |
Original scanned on Nikon Coolscan 5000 and saved as 2700 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000. |
| Donor |
Lennox Tierney; Catherine Tierney |
| Setname |
uum_lctpc |
| ID |
335384 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6df77kw |
