This mummy portrait depicts a woman from Roman Egypt named Isidora. Her hair, adorned with a gold wreath, is braided in a style fashionable in the early 100s A.D., the period to which this portrait is dated. She wears lavish accessories, including a gold hairpin, earrings composed of pearls and gold bars and three thick necklaces of gold, pearls and emeralds.
The Isidora mummy was wrapped in a reddish shroud, a burial wrapping popular in Roman Egypt in the first and second centuries A.D. Isidora’s portrait was bound into the shroud and framed with pieces of gold leaf.
The Isidora mummy portrait is currently on view at the Getty Villa in Los Angeles.
This mummy portrait depicts a woman from Roman Egypt named Isidora. Her hair, adorned with a gold wreath, is braided in a style fashionable in the early 100s A.D., the period to which this portrait is dated. She wears lavish accessories, including a gold hairpin, earrings composed of pearls and gold bars and three thick necklaces of gold, pearls and emeralds. The Isidora mummy was wrapped in a reddish shroud, a burial wrapping popular in Roman Egypt in the first and second centuries A.D. Isidora’s portrait was bound into the shroud and framed with pieces of gold leaf. The […]
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