Funerary Portrait of a Woman
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From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
You see a woman’s face on wood, her dark eyes staring straight ahead. Gold leaf frames her head like a halo. She wears a purple tunic and gold earrings. This was painted while she was alive, then later cut down and wrapped with her mummy. The gold was added after death, turning a household portrait into a funeral object. Look up more portraits from egypt, roman empire, antonine to see how Romans in Egypt blended two worlds.
