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Funerary Panel of a Man

about 138–92 CE
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encaustic on linen
Overall: 24.8 x 19 cm (9 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1971.135
Location: 003 Special Exhibition Hall
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Description

A young man with a slight mustache and warm brown eyes looks at the viewer from this painting. The linen on which his image was rendered was a less popular alternative to wood. Its delicate surface was only workable with brushes, and not the flat metal tools used for details on wooden paintings. The rest of the cartonnage (body case) the man’s image was once part of was painted with ancient Egyptian religious imagery, like that of the young man Artemidorus. The blended decorative forms on the cartonnage show how distinctive Greco-Roman and Egyptian representational systems interacted in Roman-ruled Egypt.
Funerary Panel of a Man

Funerary Panel of a Man

about 138–92 CE

Antonine-era Roman Empire (Egypt), unknown painter

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