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Collection Objects
Ancient Art
Shrine to the God Mithras (Mithraeum)
Date: 
ca. A.D. 240
Medium: 
Painted plaster
Accession Number: 
1935.100
Culture: 
Syrian, Dura-Europos
Period: 
Roman (3rd century A.D.)
Classification: 
Paintings
Status: 
On view*

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
Ceiling Tile with Heliodoros, an Actuarius
Date: 
ca. A.D. 200–256
Medium: 
Clay with painted plaster
Accession Number: 
1933.292
Culture: 
Syrian, Dura-Europos
Period: 
Roman (3rd century A.D.)
Classification: 
Paintings
Status: 
On view

Collection Objects
Ancient Art
Baribonnaea, Temple of Zeus Theos
Artist: Herbert J. Gute, American, 1908–1977
Date: 
20th century
Medium: 
gouache on paper
Accession Number: 
1936.127.30
Culture: 
American
Period: 
20th century
Classification: 
Paintings
Status: 
Not on view

Collection Objects
Ancient Art
Haman Leading Mordecai before the Throne of Ahasuerus & Esther
Artist: Herbert J. Gute, American, 1908–1977
Date: 
1933–35
Medium: 
gouache on paper on board
Accession Number: 
1936.127.6
Culture: 
American
Period: 
20th century
Classification: 
Paintings
Status: 
Not on view

Collection Objects
Ancient Art
The Israelites and the Philistines battle for the Ark of the Covenant
Artist: Herbert J. Gute, American, 1908–1977
Date: 
1933–35
Medium: 
gouache on paper on board
Accession Number: 
1936.127.3
Culture: 
American
Period: 
20th century
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
Painting of Mithras and Sol from the Middle Mithraeum
Date: 
ca. A.D. 210
Medium: 
Paint on plaster
Accession Number: 
1935.99a
Culture: 
Syrian, Dura-Europos
Period: 
Roman (3rd century A.D.)
Classification: 
Paintings
Status: 
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

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