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Fayum type portrait of a woman, ca 140-160 [d/b]

Fayum type portrait of woman wearing necklace / torc made of twisted wires, gold hairpin with pearl, and a forehead lunula-shaped ornament with three pendants [British Museum EA5619] The discriminalia type ornament is similar to the pendant of a necklace from Syria, ca 600 CE, now in Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim.


Multispectral Imaging Techniques Applied to the Study of Romano‑Egyptian Funerary Portraits at the British Museum
Joanne Dyer, Nicola Newman https://www.getty.edu/publications/mummyportraits/part-one/6/