3-035-799 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Mummy Portrait of a Young Woman, about A.D. 170-200. Additional Info: A Romano-Egyptian funerary portrait of a woman painted in tempera (pigments suspended in animal glue) on a native Egyptian sycamore fig panel. A gray under layer is visible at the edges and bottom of the panel. The features, dominated by large heavy-lidded eyes, are composed with a range of finely applied linear brushstrokes varying in thickness from the eyebrows to the eyelashes to a variety of highlights on the cheeks, nose and chin.