(OS) Mummy portrait of a woman from Hawara, ca. 70 AD. [3524 x 5391]

3-hour digital restoration work to a mummy portrait of a woman from Hawara.

For comparison, [here you have the original piece](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mummy_portrait_of_a_woman_from_Hawara_-_Berlin_%C3%84M_10974_02.jpg)[.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wall_painting_-_actor_and_two_muses_-_Herculaneum_(insula_orientalis_II_-_palaestra_-_room_III)_-_Napoli_MAN_9019.jpg)

**Material:** encaustic on wood panel (this made working on the piece quite difficult).

**Description:** young woman with curly hair, brick-red chiton (the pigment could be authentic Tyrian purple or Poor Man’s Purple which was made out of madder, kermes, cochineal, metal salts or a mix of any one of these materials) with broad clavus (i.e. the vertical stripes on the tunics of both men and women in these portraits), grey-lila mantle, necklace with lunula pendant, golden earrings with disk pendants.

**Proposed period:** (Parlasca 1969-2003) Early Flavian – (Borg 1996) late Neronian/Early Flavian, ca. 70 AD – (Parlasca/Seemann 1999) ca. 70 AD.

**Excavator/first owner:** William M. Flinders Petrie.

**Museum/inventory number:** Berlin, Neues Museum ÄM 1ß974.

**Bibliography:** Klaus Parlasca, Repertorio d´arte dell´Egitto greco-romano, Serie B, Ritratti di mummie, Volume I, Palermo 1969, cat. 67, Barbara Borg, Mumienporträts. Chronologie und kultureller Kontext, Mainz 1996, 31.96-97.166.169, Barbara Borg, „Der zierlichste Anblick der Welt …“. Ägyptische Porträtmumien, Mainz 1998, 69, Klaus Parlasca, Hellmut Seemann (ed.), Augenblicke. Mumienporträts und ägyptische Grabkunst aus römischer Zeit, München 1999, cat. 16

**P.s.:** If you enjoyed my work, [feel free to check my Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/kiu_8/), there’s where I post most of what I do, I have not been that active for a while but it is my wish to change that this year.

Hawara na na na, i left my heart (real) in hawara na na na