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    Collection Objects
    Ancient Art

    Portrait of a Young Woman (Fayum Portrait)

    Date: 
    1st–2nd century A.D.
    Medium: 

    Encaustic painting on wood

    Accession Number: 
    1955.60.3
    Culture: 
    Egyptian
    Period: 
    Roman
    Classification: 
    Paintings
    Status: 
    Not on view
    Collection Objects
    Ancient Art

    Mummy Portrait of an Old Woman

    Artist: St. Louis Painter, active ca. 290–ca. 310
    Date: 
    2nd century A.D.
    Medium: 

    Tempera on wood panel, probably oak. The portrait is shown against a bluish grey background. Set into the cloth wrappings of a mummy, covering the face of the deceased. The unpainted edge would have been covered by the mummy wrappings

    Accession Number: 
    2011.102.1
    Culture: 
    Egyptian
    Period: 
    Roman Period
    Classification: 
    Paintings
    Status: 
    On view
    Collection Objects
    Ancient Art

    Painted wood and plaster panel

    Date: 
    1st–2nd century
    Medium: 

    wood and plaster

    Accession Number: 
    1955.60.14
    Culture: 
    Egyptian
    Period: 
    1st–2nd century
    Classification: 
    Paintings
    Status: 
    Not on view
    Collection Objects
    Ancient Art

    Fragment of an illustrated papyrus

    Date: 
    1085–715 B.C.
    Medium: 

    Papyrus with polychrome, mounted on cardboard

    Accession Number: 
    1906.2
    Culture: 
    Egyptian
    Period: 
    Third Intermediate Period, Dynasties 21–24
    Classification: 
    Paintings
    Status: 
    Not on view
    Collection Objects
    Ancient Art

    Fragment from “Book of the Dead” Papyrus

    Date: 
    304–30 B.C.
    Medium: 

    painted papyrus

    Accession Number: 
    1906.1
    Culture: 
    Egyptian, Ptolemaic
    Period: 
    Ptolemaic
    Classification: 
    Paintings
    Status: 
    Not on view
    Collection Objects
    Ancient Art

    Large Painted Panel with kneeling figure

    Date: 
    n.d.
    Medium: 

    Painted wood

    Accession Number: 
    1956.33.78
    Culture: 
    Egyptian
    Classification: 
    Paintings
    Status: 
    Not on view
    Collection Objects
    Ancient Art

    Six (6) Mummy Fragments

    Date: 
    1303 B.C. or later
    Medium: 

    Painted gesso over linen base

    Accession Number: 
    1956.33.10a-f
    Culture: 
    Egyptian
    Period: 
    19th Dynasty or later
    Classification: 
    Paintings
    Status: 
    Not on view
    Collection Objects
    Ancient Art

    Painted fragment of Egyptian mummy case

    Date: 
    664–525 B.C.
    Medium: 

    Painted Wood

    Accession Number: 
    1957.7.19
    Culture: 
    Egyptian
    Period: 
    Late Period, Dynasty 26
    Classification: 
    Paintings
    Status: 
    Not on view
    Collection Objects
    Ancient Art

    A painted palette-shaped textle fragment

    Date: 
    n.d.
    Medium: 

    Paint on woven textile

    Accession Number: 
    1957.7.14
    Culture: 
    Egyptian
    Period: 
    Pre Hellenistic(?)
    Classification: 
    Paintings
    Status: 
    Not on view
    Collection Objects
    Ancient Art

    Portrait of a Bearded Man

    Date: 
    2nd century A.D.
    Medium: 

    Encaustic on wood

    Accession Number: 
    1939.264
    Culture: 
    Egyptian
    Period: 
    Roman
    Classification: 
    Paintings
    Status: 
    On view

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