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accession number: 1971.137
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Funerary Portrait of a Young Girl, c. 25–37 CE. Egypt, Roman Empire, late Tiberian. Encaustic on wood; overall: 39.4 x 17.4 cm (15 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1971.137
title: Funerary Portrait of a Young Girl
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creation date: c. 25–37 CE
creation date earliest: 25
creation date latest: 37
current location: 003 Special Exhibition Hall
creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: Egypt, Roman Empire, late Tiberian
technique: encaustic on wood
department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
collection: Egypt - Greco-Roman
type: Painting
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measurements: Overall: 39.4 x 17.4 cm (15 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1971
opening date: 1971-12-28T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1971. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972).
title: Africa & Byzantium
opening date: 2023-11-13T05:00:00
Africa & Byzantium. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (co-organizer) (April 14-July 21, 2024).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Hawara, Egypt
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1971." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59, no. 1 (1972).
page number: No. 4, Illus. p. 5
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152412
Cooney, John D. "Portraits from Roman Egypt." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59, no. 2 (Feb. 1972).
page number: pp. 51-52, fig. 1 and cover
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152416
La Chronique des Arts, suppl. to Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 1237 (February 1972).
page number: p. 70, fig. 246
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Thompson, David L. The Artists of the Mummy Portraits. [Malibu, Calif.]: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1976.
page number: fig. 18
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Johnson, Mark M. "Portrait Painting: An Image of Man," Arts and Activities 82, no. 1 (September 1977).
page number: pp. 32-33, fig. 1
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Parlasca, Klaus. Ritratti di mummie. Roma: Erma di Bretschneider, 1977.
page number: pp. 29-30, no. 249, pl. 61. fig. 2
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 18
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n38
Thompson, David L. Mummy Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Malibu, Calif: The Museum, 1982.
page number: p. 9, fig. 12
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Berger, Jacques-Edouard, Klaus Parlasca, and Rosario Pintaudi. El-Fayyum. Milano: F.M. Ricci, 1985.
page number: pp. 62-3
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page number: Reproduced: p. 12
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n27
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Masterpieces from East and West. New York, NY: Rizzoli International, 1992.
page number: p. 22
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Doxiadis, Euphrosyne. The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt. London: Thames and Hudson, 1995.
page number: p. 68, no. 55, pp. 201-2
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Liddell, Marlane A. "Haunting Faces from the Banks of the Nile." Smithsonian Magazine. Nov. 1995. pp.134-139
page number: p. 134
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Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999
page number: Reproduced: p. 506; Mentioned: p. 506-7
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Windmuller-Luna, Kristen. “Africa & Byzantium: Spectacular treasures from diverse lands joined by deserts, seas, and rivers.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 64, no. 1 (2024): Cover, 4-7, 24.
page number: Reproduced: Cover; Mentioned: P. 4-6.
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