Elisabeth R. O’Connell

Elisabeth R. O’Connell is the editor of Egypt and Empire: The Formation of Religious Identity after Rome, which came out in 2022.

In Her Green Necklace: Mummy Portraits

Elisabeth R. O’Connell, 23 October 2025

Portraits of a woman (c.100-120) and of a boy called Eutyches (c.100-150).

The Annual Report​ of the Director of the National Gallery for 1888 announced the display of three painted wooden panels ‘under glass’. The panels were almost two thousand years old and had been unearthed the year before from Roman-period cemeteries in Hawara, in the Fayum basin in Egypt, where they...

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