Mummy Portraits: A Stunning Discovery
The mummy portraits are stunning, with production beginning around 30-40 CE, sixty years after the defeat of Antony.
Examples include portraits of an unknown woman (c.160-70) and a boy called Eutyches (c.100-150).
The Annual Report of the Director of the National Gallery for 1888 announced the display of three painted wooden panels, almost two thousand years old, unearthed from Roman-period cemeteries in Hawara, Egypt.
Initially, they were shown at the Egyptian Hall on Piccadilly, alongside complete mummies and other finds from the Fayum, before arriving at the National Gallery.
Elisabeth R. O’Connell: In Her Green Necklace: Mummy Portraits
Author's summary: Mummy portraits are ancient Egyptian artworks.