Fayum mummy portraits
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Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic encaustic portrait typically painted on wooden boards attached to the mummies of upper class individuals from the Roman Egypt period
Mummy portrait of a young woman, Antinoöpolis, Middle Egypt, 2nd century, Louvre, Paris.
This heavily gilt portrait was found in Antinoöpolis in winter 1905/06 by French Archaeologist Alfred Gayet and sold to the Egyptian Museum of Berlin in 1907.
Mummy portrait of a man from Fayum. Encaustic on limewood, AD 80–100. British Museum
Mummy portrait of a woman from Fayum, Hawara, modern-day Egypt. Encaustic on wood, AD 300–325. British Museum
Cartonnage
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Cartonnage or cartonage is a type of material used in ancient Egyptian funerary masks from the First Intermediate Period to the Roman era. It was made of layers of linen or papyrus covered with plaste
Rear of a cartonnage Anubis mask, Ptolemaic era
This mummy of an unknown girl has a cartonnage composed of layers of linen and plaster. The Walters Art Museum.
Cartonnage of Nespanetjerenpere, ca. 945–718 BCE. Linen or papyrus mixed with plaster, pigment, glass, lapis lazuli, 69 11/16 in. (177 cm). Brooklyn Museum, 35.1265.
Fragment of cartonnage from a New Kingdom coffin (Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum)