Research Catalog
Portrait of a child : historical and scientific studies of a Roman Egyptian mummy / edited by Essi Rönkkö, Taco Terpstra, and Marc Walton.
- Title
- Portrait of a child : historical and scientific studies of a Roman Egyptian mummy / edited by Essi Rönkkö, Taco Terpstra, and Marc Walton.
- Publication
- [Evanston, Illinois] : Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University. [2019]
- ©2019
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | DT62.M7 P67 2019g | Off-site |
Holdings
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 111 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
- Uniform Title
- Portrait of a child (Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art)
- Alternative Title
- Historical and scientific studies of a Roman Egyptian mummy
- Subject
- Classical antiquities
- Egypt > Antiquities, Roman > Exhibitions
- Egypt > Hawara Site
- Egypt
- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient > Egypt > Exhibitions
- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient
- Hawara Site (Egypt) > Antiquities, Roman > Exhibitions
- Illinois > Evanston
- Mummies > Conservation and restoration > Evanston > Exhibitions
- Mummies > Conservation and restoration
- Mummies > Egypt > Exhibitions
- Mummies
- Mummy portraits > Egypt > Exhibitions
- Mummy portraits
- Portraits, Egyptian > Exhibitions
- Portraits, Egyptian
- Portraits, Roman > Egypt > Exhibitions
- Portraits, Roman
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Note
- "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Paint the eyes softer: Mummy portraits from Roman Egypt. The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, January 13-April 22, 2018"--Colophon.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Foreword / Lisa G. Corrin & Julio M. Ottino -- A timeline of Egypt -- Introduction: A Roman Egyptian mummy from Hawara / Essi Rönkkö, Taco Terpstra, and Marc Walton -- A girl from Hawara: childhood in Roman Egypt / Essi Rönkkö -- The many voices of treatment: the conservation of a Roman mummy / Rachel C. Sabino -- A portrait of a young girl: results from scientific analysis / Victoria Cooley, Caroline Cartwright, and Marc Walton -- The materials of mummy portraits in the context of the Roman economy / Taco Terpstra -- Sex, age, and mummification practices: evidence from 3-D x-ray imaging and x-ray diffraction / Stuary R. Stock, Michala K. Stock, Olivia Dill, and Jonathan D. Almer -- From Egypt to Evanston: the modern afterlife of a portrait mummy / Lorelei H. Corcoran -- Interior and Exterior: the function and production of mummy portraits in relation to the mummification process / Olivia Dill -- Visualizing an ancient mummy with x-ray imaging and augmented reality / Nathan Matsuda -- Audio for the ancients: fine-tuning museum experience with sound / Thomas Molash.
- Call Number
- DT62.M7
- ISBN
- 9781732568419
- 1732568413
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries