Quartermaine Hall

Adventures in Miniature

Mummy Portrait of a Man

Artisan: Feast of Fools (Heather Randall)
Date: 2021
Dimensions: 41 x 20 x 3 mm. / 1 ⅝ x ¾ x ⅛ inches (height x width x depth)
Inventory number: 2021.022
Intended Room: Museum
Category: Antiquities

The original of this superb mummy portrait from Fayum in Egypt, created in around 140 AD, is now in the Metropolitan Museum. Unfortunately we don’t know this man’s name, which means that posterity refers to him, rather unflatteringly, as the ‘man with a mole on his nose’.

For another mummy portrait by Feast of Fools, also based on an example at the Met, see here.