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Portrait of a woman
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This highly naturalistic mummy portrait depicts a young woman with deep brown eyes, arched brows, and a long pointed nose. Her dark hair is pulled back with only a row of small curls framing her forehead. Her jewelry is simple: small gold double-hooped earrings, each with a pendant pearl. She wears a deep purple tunic with green shoulder bands and maroon clasps all over a white undergarment, visible only at the neckline.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Denman Waldo Ross Cambridge MA (by 1923) gift; to Fogg Art Museum 1923.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross
Title: Portrait of a woman
Description:
This highly naturalistic mummy portrait depicts a young woman with deep brown eyes, arched brows, and a long pointed nose.
Her dark hair is pulled back with only a row of small curls framing her forehead.
Her jewelry is simple: small gold double-hooped earrings, each with a pendant pearl.
She wears a deep purple tunic with green shoulder bands and maroon clasps all over a white undergarment, visible only at the neckline.
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