3-035-818 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Portrait of a Bearded Man, A.D. 100. Additional Info: Romano-Egyptian portrait of a man in tempera (animal glue) on a square panel of fig wood. Although the panel’s manufacture, appearance and commemorative iconography belong to the world of Romano-Egyptian funerary portraiture, this never served as a funerary mask inserted into mummy wrappings. The unpainted, beveled edge on all four sides of the square panel indicates it was once framed.