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Mummy with an Inserted Panel Portrait of a Youth

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Description

Roman Period, A.D. 80–100. Mummified human body with linen and mummification material; panel portrait: encaustic on limewood. Mummy: L. 169 cm (66 9/16 in.); W. 45 cm (17 11/16 in.); Panel as exposed: H. 38.1 cm (15 in.); W. 18 cm (7 1/16 in.). From: Hawara, Fayum, Egypt. Excavation: BSAE excavations 1910-1911. Subject: Men, Portraits. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1911.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A mummified human body wrapped in light-colored linen is shown upright against a dark background, with a painted face or portrait panel visible on the head area.

The image depicts a human mummy bundle wrapped tightly in crisscrossing linen strips. At the top, a painted/depicted facial image appears beneath a light head covering; the face has dark eyebrows, eyes, and a straight nose, with a neutral expression. The wrappings continue down the body in a consistent diagonal lattice pattern. No clearly legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or other text are visible in the provided view, and no distinct wooden panel or Greek/other script is clearly readable. The overall appearance matches a mummy with portrait elements near the head, but fine details that would confirm the exact “inserted panel portrait” construction are not clearly distinguishable from this single image alone.

funerary Roman Period (catalogue ground truth; image does not provide enough detail to refine further) good
Materials mummified human bodylinen wrappingspainted portrait on head area

Connections

Found at Hawara, in the Fayum district, Egypt
Materials Mummified Human BodyLinen Wrappings

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116276471 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 11.139 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 547697 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
  • AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
  • Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.