Panel Portrait of a Woman

Nombre del creador

Unknown

Contexto cultural

Egyptian; Roman

Fecha

Creación: 2nd century, Greco-Roman Egypt, Roman Egypt Era, Roman Empire

Fuente

Walters Art Museum

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Funerary portraits immortalize the sitter, and their status, for eternity. Fayum portraits, named after the Faiyum Governorate where many of them were found in the 19th and 20th century, depict elite Greco-Egyptian sitters from Roman Imperial Egypt.

This woman ‘s portrait has grown hazy with age, but we can still see her brilliantly gilded earrings, gold coin necklace, and gold details on her garment. The knot in her purple and white garment may associate her with the cult of the goddess Isis. Isis merged with the Greek goddess Aphrodite in some places during the Ptolemaic dynasty. Isis-Aphrodite was still popular during this woman’s lifetime, reinforcing the syncretic beliefs about life, death, and divinity that characterized Fayum portraits, which drew from both Egyptian and Greco-Roman funerary practices.

Descripción de objeto de Walters Art Museum

The woman portrayed here is richly adorned with jewelry, from her gold and pearl earrings to the gold embellishments on her purple garment to her heavy gold necklace. The raised shapes are created with plaster, and the gold elements are gilded. The central design of the large disc pendant appears to be a gold coin, and examples of Roman and Late antique jewelry that incorporates gold coins have survived. The woman’s white garment is tied in a knot that may connect her to the cult of the goddess Isis. The shape of the panel—narrower around her head and broader at her shoulders—is thought to be characteristic of mummy portraits from the city of Antinoöpolis, Egypt. This panel is unusually thick, ...

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Panel Portrait of a Woman

Creador

Unknown, Artist

Egyptian

Tipo de obra

Funerary object; Funerary mask; Panel painting

Painting & Drawing; mummy portraits; death masks

Contexto cultural

Egyptian; Roman

Roman

Material

encaustic (wax and pigments) on beech wood

Dimensiones

H: 18 × W at bottom: 8 1/8 × W at top: 7 × D: 1/4 in. (45.7 × 20.64 × 17.78 × 0.64 cm)

Técnica

Encaustic painting; Painting; Gilding

Idioma

Fecha

Creación: 2nd century, Greco-Roman Egypt, Roman Egypt Era, Roman Empire

Creation: ca. 130-200 CE (Roman Imperial)

Procedencia

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [as from Fayum]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Estilo Período

Derechos

CC0;

GNU Free Documentation License

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Ubicación

Creación: Egypt, North Africa, Africa, Antinoöpolis, Minya Governorate

Fuente

Walters Art Museum

Temas

Tema descriptivo: Woman, Portrait, Devotees of Isis, Ancient Greeks, Egyptian people, Death (natural phenomenon), People, Afterlife , Gold, Jewelry, Necklace, Earring, Coin, Mummy , Social status, Upper class

Tema

Colaboradores de Curationist

Reina Gattuso; Christina Stone; Emily Benoff

Contenido relacionado

Parte de: Fayum Portraits

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Unknown, Panel Portrait of a Woman, ca. 130-200 CE (Roman Imperial). Walters Art Museum. A funerary portrait of a Greco-Egyptian woman from Roman Imperial Egypt wearing jewelry. Her knotted tunic may associate her with the goddess Isis. CC0.

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