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Fayum female portraits

mid 2nd or mid 4th century Menil Collection
1st-4th century, Pushkin’s Museum
The end of the 2nd – beginning of 4th century
Private collection
100-120 CE British museum, EA63395
A boy, 200-230 CE; Brooklyn Museum Photo by Sailko [wiki]
Portrait of a Young Person, ca. 200–230. Brooklyn Museum, 54.197 Image: Brooklyn Museum
https://colorsandstones.eu/2022/08/12/portrait-of-a-girl-from-fayum-wearing-a-discriminalia-hair-ornament-d-b/
Portrait of a young woman, ca 100 CE. Royal Ontario Museum 918.20.1

ROM Canada 
https://collections.rom.on.ca

2nd century; the Altes Museum in Berlin
photo ©Frans Vandewalle
2nd-3rd century Stanford, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford Family Collections, JLS.22225. Image: Art+Science Learning Lab, Cantor Arts Center

Stanford Family Collections, JLS.22225. Image: Art+Science Learning Lab, Cantor Arts Center 
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138-161 CE https://www.namuseum.gr
Young girl with pearls. Fayum portrait now in AKM Bonn, Inv. no. D804

Elisabeth Fugmann, Yvonne Schmuhl
Das Mumienporträt eines Mädchens im Bonner Akademischen Kunstmuseum https://academia.edu

Saqqara, 100-120 CE; in the British museum
Photo source: https://koroleni.livejournal.com
Portrait of a Girl. Národní galerie Praha
Portrait of a Girl. Detail | Národní galerie Praha

Portrait of a girl, mid-4th century.

Národní galerie Praha inv. no. O 1781 https://sbirky.ngprague.cz/en/dielo/CZE:NG.O_1781

There is a great zoom on the website.

2nd century. Attributed to Kerke, Egypt. Glue tempera paint on linden panel. Berkeley, University of California, @ Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, 5-2327
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Portrait of a Woman, 140–160. Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, AEIN 682. © Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. Photo: L. Spaabæk
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The Egyptian Museum in Cairo. PHOTOGRAPH BY AKG / ALBUM
Painted mummy portrait of a woman. C. 150 AD. From Hawara, Egypt. Acc. no 2266 Manchester Museum
https://egyptmanchester.wordpress.com
130–140. Encaustic on linden wood, 35.3 x 22.5 cm (13 7/8 x 8 7/8 in.). Cambridge, Harvard Art Museums / Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross, 1923.60. Image: President and Fellows of Harvard College

Harvard Art Museum, woman with earrings 
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Mummy Shroud, 2nd/3rd century http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/256830

Mummy shroud [hands] the Met 
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Female stucco-shrouded portrait mummy (CG 33281) housed at the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, Cairo. © I. Badr [Decorated bodies]
Young female mummy (CG 33281). (© I. Badr)

Decorated bodies for eternal life: A multidisciplinary study of late Roman Period stucco-shrouded portrait mummies from Saqqara (Egypt)
Stephanie Zesch

Stucco-shrouded portrait mummies housed at the Dresden State Art Collections. (A) male mummy (Aeg 777); (B) female mummy (Aeg 778) (© Sculpture Collection, Dresden State Art Collections, photos: H.-P. Klut/E. Estel). [Decorated bodies]
(A) male (Aeg 777) with a so-called kantharos in his right hand and a garland or a folded wreath of blossoms in his left hand. Note also the Greek inscription below his right forearm; (B) female (Aeg 778) with a so-called lekythos in her right hand. (© Sculpture Collection, Dresden State Art Collections, photos: M. Gander/M. Loth).

Decorated bodies for eternal life: A multidisciplinary study of late Roman Period stucco-shrouded portrait mummies from Saqqara (Egypt)
Stephanie Zesch

  1. Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt: Emerging Research from the APPEAR Project.
    Edited by Marie Svoboda and Caroline R. Cartwright https://www.getty.edu/publications/mummyportraits/
  2. Decorated bodies for eternal life: A multidisciplinary study of late Roman Period stucco-shrouded portrait mummies from Saqqara (Egypt); Stephanie Zesch