Portrait Mummy of “Golden Girl”

Item Overview

Title

Portrait Mummy of “Golden Girl”

Collection

UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (UEE)

Notes

Description

Horizontal
Article: Painted Funerary Portraits
Gilded
Painted

Caption

Figure 2. Portrait mummy of a girl termed “Golden Girl” because of her gilt stucco case. From Petrie’s excavations at Hawara. Cairo, Egyptian Museum CG 33216.

Physical Description

Medium

Gold
Wood

Keywords

Genre

Coffin/Sarcophagus of Humans

Subject Geographic

Hawara

Subject Temporal

Greco-Roman Period

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Material Culture, Art and Architecture
Uses and Applications