Living Images: Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum

319 Pages·304.834 MB·English

by  Janet Picton, Stephen Quirke, Paul C. Roberts, Paul Roberts

Living Images
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Living Images
Egyptian Funerary Portraits
in the Petrie Museum
edited by
Janet Picton Stephen Quirke Paul C Roberts
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Livingimages:EgyptianfuneraryportraitsinthePetrieMuseumI editedbyJanetPicton,
StephenQuirke,PaulC.Roberts.
p.em.- (UniversityCollegeLondonInstituteofArchaeologypublications)
Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
ISBN-13:978-1-59874-251-0(pbk.:alk.paper)
1. Mummyportraits-Egypt-Fayyum-Catalogs. 2. Portraits,Roman-Egypt-
Fayyum-Catalogs. 3. Mummyportraits-England-London-Catalogs. 4. Petrie
MuseumofEgyptianArchaeology-Catalogs. 5. Excavations(Archaeology)-Egypt-
Fayyum. I. Picton,Janet. II. Qyirke,Stephen. III. Roberts,PaulC.
ND1327.E3L582007
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TextandcoverdesignbyDenaPenna
IndexesbyEricaHill
ISBN13:978-1-59874-251-0(pbk)
Contents
Dedication 7
Museum Collections Referenced in this Volume 8
Donors and Subscribers 9
PARTI
The Archaeological Context of the Portraits 11
Recovery and Rediscovery
l An Archaeological Context for British Discoveries
of Mummy Portraits in the Fayum 13
Paul C Roberts
2 The Hawara Mummy Portraits and the Periodisation
of Burial Customs 73
Stephen Quirke
3 Extracts from the Petrie Journals 83
Paul C Roberts and Stephen Quirke
4 The Day Diaries from Petrie s Seasons
at Hawara, 1888 and 1910-11 105
Edited by Stephen Quirke
PART II
Conservation of Mummy Portraits 111
Technology and Techniques
5 Conservation of Mummy Portraits at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek 113
Lin Spaaback
6 The Fayum Portraits
‘They Are Not Art, They Are “Truth” * 143
Euphrosyne Doxiadis
7 Recent Conservation of the Petrie Museum Portraits 149
Richard and Helena Jaeschke
PART III
Catalogue of the Panel Portraits in the Petrie Museum 161
Barbara Adams and Susan Walker
PART IV
Barbara Adams 271
8 The Life and Work of Barbara Adams 273
H S Smith
9 Barbara Adams at Hierakonpolis 281
Renee Friedman
10 Publications of Barbara Adams 287
Compiled by Renee Friedman
PART V
Illustrated Index of Hawara Portraits 293
Illustrated Index of Hawara Portraits Excavated in 1888 and 1911 295
Portrait Index 307
Index 313
Dedication
Throughout our work on this book
we have consistently referred to it as
‘Barbaras book’—the book she would
have written if cancer had not taken
her away from us. Our thanks to all the
contributors who have given their time
and great knowledge so selflessly, to the
Friends of the Petrie Museum and to
the worldwide friends of Barbara who
contributed so generously to the appeal
that made the publication of the Petrie
portraits, Barbaras long-held ambition,
possible.
Barbara consistently set her­
self targets and then forced herself to
achieve them. She became a leading
scholar but never really appreciated how
highly she was regarded. She once said that she had ‘achieved more than she
thought she could, more than she dreamed she would’ and even that she at­
tributed to the support and encouragement of‘wonderful men who gave her
opportunities she would otherwise never have had—Professor Harry Smith
and, later, Professor Peter Ucko and always, of course, her husband Rob.
Barbara was, in addition to her academic ability, an essentially feminine
woman. Her wistful regret for the loss of the stunning looks that set her apart
as a young woman encourages us to include with this foreword a portrait of
Barbara as a young woman. She would have loved people to remember her as
both scholar and woman.
With love and the utmost respect, this book is dedicated to the memory
of Barbara Adams
Janet Picton
Friends of the Petrie Museum
Museum Collections Referenced in this Volume
Agyptisches Museum, Berlin
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, Blackburn, UK
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton, UK
British Museum, London
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, US
Bulak Museum (officially known as the ‘Egyptian Museum'), Cairo
Cairo Museum (officially known as the ‘Egyptian Museum’), Cairo
City of Liverpool Museum (now National Museums Liverpool)
Egyptian Museum, Cairo (official name of the museum referred to as the ‘Cairo
Museum’ or the ‘Bulak Museum’)
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Girton College, Cambridge
Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries
Graeco-Roman Museum, Alexandria
Ipswich Museum, Ipswich, UK
Manchester Museum, Manchester, UK
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Musees Royaux du Cinquantenaire, Brussels
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
National Museum of Ireland, Dublin
National Museums Liverpool (formerly City of Liverpool Museum), UK
National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh
Nottingham Museum and Art Gallery
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Japan
Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Salford, UK
Staatliche Sammlung Agyptischer Kunst, Munich
University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
Donors and Subscribers
Our thanks to all those who so generously supported the appeal in memory
of Barbara Adams, both those who are listed here and those who chose to
remain anonymous.
Christina (Kiki) Adams; Graham Adamson; Roger Allen; Ancient World
Tours; Aris 8c Phillips; Professor John Baines; Dr Ladislav Bares, Czech
Institute of Egyptology; Alf Baxendale; Lewis Blake; Simon Bleaken;
Elizabeth and Ian Blyth; Suzanne Bojtos; Allan Boley; Barbara Booker; Olivia
Bosch; Ave Boulton; Dr Janine Bourriau; Baruch Brandi, Jerusalem; Rikki
Breem; Margaret Cain Jackson; Dr Helen Chatteqee, Grant Museum UCL;
Mrs Gwyneth Chaturachinda; Margery Clare; Peter A Clayton; Christopher
Coleman, Bloomsbury Summer School; Dee Collins; Ronald Davey; Professor
Rosalie David; Sue and Mike Davies; Professor David Davies; Martin Davies;
Dr David Dixon*; Dr Aidan Dodson and Dyan Dodson; Rosina Down;
Carol Downer; M S Drower; Egyptian Cultural Heritage Organisation; Dr
George Fildes, H R A Manchester Museum; Barry Fitzpatrick; the Fitzwilliam
Museum; Jack and Ann Foster; Dr Renee Friedman; Lucia Gahlin; Mr and
Mrs Robert Gaskins; Stephanie Gee; Dr Lisa Giddy; Peter Ginn; Tracey
Golding; John Graham; Dr Kenneth Green; Emma Greenway; Phyllis
Grierson; Katherine Griffis-Greenberg; Douglas Hallam; Nicola Harrington
MA; Professor David Harris; George Hart; Lara Hart; Annie Haward;
Thomas C. Heagy; L E Hughes; Irene Holbourn-Lloyd; Mr and Mrs D
Holmes; Dr Diane Holmes; Susan Holmes; Institute of Archaeology, UCL;
Ashley Jones; Martin Smith, Kerma Technology Ltd; Shirley Lancaster; Mr
Tony Lane; Neville Laws; Elizabeth Longley; Nicole Loret; Helen Lowell; Ole
Lyngklip; Mr and Mrs H Macdonald; Sally Macdonald; Claire Malleson; the
Manchester Museum; Miss L V Marsh-Smith; Professor Geoffrey Thorndike
Martin; Anne and Fraser Mathews; Carol Starnes McCanless; John and
Joyce McKay; Valerie McOuat; Dimitri Meeks and Christine Favard Meeks;
Elaine Middleton; Anthony J Mills; Theya Molleson; Francesca Monti; Dr
Dominic Montserrat+; James Mower MA; Dawn Muirhead; Heidi Mulla;