Mummy portraits tend be so lifelike that they make the viewer take pause, staring into the eyes of someone from millennia ago -- and finding that the eyes stare back.
Mummy portrait
Encaustic (melted wax) on wood
Roman Period, c 150 CE
Unknown provenance
Brooklyn Museum, 86.226.18
Mummy portrait
Encaustic (melted wax) on wood
Roman Period, c 150 CE
Unknown provenance
Brooklyn Museum, 1996.146.9
