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Female with Earring, Mummy Portrait, Hawara
Mummy portrait of a young girl with short (or pulled back) hair, from Hawara cemetery, Egypt. 1st-2nd centuries CE.
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London (with thanks to The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL).
This girl wears a central gold leaf pendant on her head and small gold earrings. There is a gold chain necklace with an oval pendant in center. Her face was damaged by a tool. The intact left eye has an aquamarine blue color. The panel was split longitudinally into three major sections. It was conserved in 1984 and remounted in 1989 by Helena Jaeschke.