An egyptian painted wood mummy portrait, fayuum, circa 2nd century A.D. and later

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Description

H. of frame 16 1/2 in.

Depicting the head of a youth, the inscribed panel naming Sarapon, son of Haresas, who died in his 25th year, in an oak frame by Inagaki, Paris, and bearing his stamp. Much of the portrait restored, perhaps using fragments from other panels

Provenance

Dikran Khan Kelekian, Place Vendome, Paris, early 20th century
Mr. and Mrs. S.S. White, Ardmore Pennsylvania

Exhibited

Philadelphia Museum of Art [L-358-25]

Literature

Klaus Parlasca, "Mumienportrats und verwandte Denkmaler", Wiesbaden, 1966, pp. 81-82, 259, and pl. 28,1.