Funerary Portrait: Bearded Man
Location
Era
Roman Period (30 B.C.E.-395 C.E.)
Title
Funerary Portrait: Bearded Man
Date
Late 2nd-early 3rd c. C.E.
Materials
Encaustic on panel
Dimensions
34.3 x 19 cm
Credits
F. Cleveland Morgan Bequest, inv. 1962.B.3
Collection
Archeology and World Cultures
The man wears a red-bordered white toga, an indication both of Rome’s influence on culture and identity, as well as on everyday life, in Egypt in the first centuries of our era.
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