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image: portrait of a woman - example of encaustic punic-wax


Example of encaustic Punic-wax.
 


A woman, 'Demos', ca. 75 - 100 AD.
An inscription on the mummy of the woman read: 'Demos, aged 24, remembered for ever'.
Demos has elaborately dressed hair, with tight curls and a spiralling plait secured by a horizontal hairpin, bar earrings set with pearls, and a necklace consisting of round emerald beads and a gold chain.

 [picture no.40 from the book mentioned on page 1 of the article]