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Mummy portrait of a woman, known as "L'Européenne" painted on wooden board (encaustic wax paintings), from Antinoopolis (Antinoe), Egypt, 120-130 CE. Louvre Museum, Paris.

This mummy mask belonged to a woman who lived in Egypt during the Late Period (c. 712-332 BCE). It is made of linen, plaster, pigment, and gold, and it dates from c. 688-525 BCE. (Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford...

This is a pinewood mummy label of Tasherithorsiese. She was the daughter of Pa-Akhem-Hor and Tasheritpashy. There are four lines of a demotic script; the other side (not shown) contains 3 lines of Greek inscription. Roman Period, 2nd century...

This mummy label was made of green glazed composition. There is a large suspension loop at the upper margin. A Greek inscription can be seen. Graeco-Roman Period, 332 BCE to 380 CE. From Egypt, precise provenance of excavation is unknown...

Mummy portrait of a man, painted in encaustic on limewood, from Hawara, Fayum, Egypt, 80-100 CE. The British Museum, London. The portrait was excavated by Sir William Petrie and formerly housed in the National Gallery. There is a fissure...

The mummy, wrapped in linen bandages, is enclosed in a body-shaped envelope of cartonnage (a light-weight material composed of layers of gummed linen and plaster), which could be moulded to the desired shape. The surface is decorated with...

The outer shroud was painted with a full face figure of the dead girl, flanked by gods and goddesses. A painted pectoral of cartonnage represents the Ba of Cleopatra as a human-headed bird. She was the daughter of Candace (a member of the...

From Rubayyat, Egypt. Ptolemaic period, 305-30 BCE. (National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology, Dublin, Republic of Ireland)

Mummy of the Ukok Princess or Princess of the Altai, one of the Pazyryk burials, dating from the 5th century BCE, found in a kurgan in the remote Ukok Plateau in the Altai Republic in Russia in 1993. Republican National Museum, Gorno-Altaisk...

Cartonnage, painted, and gilded mummy mask of Pasyg (or Pa-remet-syg; Greek, Promsiko). The mask of Pa-remet-syg is the only one from Meir which mentions the name of the deceased, on the back, in a demotic script. It also mentions the name...