Identity area
Reference code
Petrie MSS 5.8.38b [lower]
Title
Portraits found 1888, kept at Bulak
Date(s)
- c.1887-1890 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
1 photograph
Context area
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(1853-1942)
Archival history
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Scope and content
-Hawara: two Roman funerary portraits ('Faiyum mummy portraits') (for the portrait of the man: Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 33236; for the portrait of the child: Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 33240).
-Caption:
'Portraits found 1888, kept at Bulak'.
-Also pencil note 'LL'.
This photograph is in a section titled 'XV'.
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Publication note
-Petrie, W. M. Flinders, Kahun, Gurob, and Hawara (1890) (OEB 147091), pl. I [upper right].
-'Petrie's Photographs of Egypt: Landscape, monuments, people': http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/ppoe/Petrie_5_8_038lower.html (accessed 14/11/2017).
-See TopBib iv.103.