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Composite portrait of a man

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Mummy portrait of a bearded man wearing a white tunic. His face is highly detailed, with large brown eyes and a light beard with moustache. His hair is dark and holds the remains of a gold diadem. His tunic is white, with a navy blue vertical stripe over his right shoulder. There is a red band with gold studs running from behind the right side of his neck across the front of his chest. The panel is broken into eighteen pieces, some of which do not appear to be original. It has been reassembled, but many of the pieces do not belong. The left side of his head does not align with his face, there are remnants of gold on a panel by his right ear that does not fit in, and both shoulders of his tunic are missing.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics Mr. Denman W. Ross gift; to Fogg Art Museum 1924. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross
Title: Composite portrait of a man
Description:
Mummy portrait of a bearded man wearing a white tunic.
His face is highly detailed, with large brown eyes and a light beard with moustache.
His hair is dark and holds the remains of a gold diadem.
His tunic is white, with a navy blue vertical stripe over his right shoulder.
There is a red band with gold studs running from behind the right side of his neck across the front of his chest.
The panel is broken into eighteen pieces, some of which do not appear to be original.
It has been reassembled, but many of the pieces do not belong.
The left side of his head does not align with his face, there are remnants of gold on a panel by his right ear that does not fit in, and both shoulders of his tunic are missing.

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