Materials & Making
A Mummy Portrait Records a Painted Face on a Separate Support
Read an Egyptian mummy portrait through its painted support, museum record and surviving relationship to the burial assemblage.
Ancient objects, open questions
Roman Egypt
Reading the Past
An Egyptian Die Preserves a Numbering Arrangement as Well as a Shape
A small cube with dots can look familiar before we have read anything about it. The Met’s die numbered 10.130.1155 invites a closer question: how are the…