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Golden girl, sarcophagus Hawara, 2nd C, Museum Cairo [d/b]

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2nd century sarcophagus with a portrait of a girl named “Golden Girl” because of her gilt stucco case. [Isis priestess]
From Petrie’s excavations at Hawara necropolis near Fayum. Cairo, Egyptian Museum CG 33216. [Painted Funerary Portraits, Barbara E. Borg pdf ]

https://colorsandstones.eu/2022/02/12/vallerano-necropolis/

Pictures from the museum by Ahmed Sameh 
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Pictures from the museum by Ahmed Sameh 
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https://koroleni.livejournal.com/378906.html
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This well preserved female mummy case, the “Golden Girl”, is displayed 07 June 2005 at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo during the opening of the “Fayoum Portraits”: Faces of the Past exhibition. The mummy case is decorated with traditional scenes from Egyptian mythology: a winged goddess protects the mummy. It is called the “Golden Girl” not only because of the gilding, but also because her jewellery is dazzling. The exhibition displays a collection of Greco-Roman artifacts consisting of 12 colored portraits unearthed during the second part of the 19th century (1888AD) by the British archaeologist “Petrie” while carrying out excavation works in Hawara area in Fayoum, tow colored cartonnage six coloured and gilded funerary masks. AFP PHOTO/KHALED DESOUKI (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP) (Photo by KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images)
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  1. Portrait Mummies from Roman Egypt (I-IV Centuries A.D.) with a Catalog of Portrait Mummies in Egyptian Museums; Lorelei H. Corcoran https://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/shared/docs/saoc56.pdf; pp. 177-180
  2. Painted Funerary Portraits, Barbara E. Borg pdf 

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