Close-up photographs of a row of books of various colors and sizes

Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt: Emerging Research from the APPEAR Project, proceedings from a conference held at the Getty Villa, May 16-17, 2018. Svoboda, M., Cartwright, C., (Editors), Getty Publications (2020)

Decorated surfaces on ancient Egyptian objects: technology, deterioration and conservation: proceedings of a conference held in Cambridge, UK on 7-8 September 2007. Dawson, J., Rozeik, C. and Wright, M. (Editors). Archetype Publications Ltd., London, United Kingdom pp. 106-121 (2010) Includes: Rowe, S., Siddall, R., and Stacey, R. “Roman Egyptian gilded cartonnage: technical study and conservation of a mummy mask from Hawara.”

Portrait of a Child: Historical and Scientific Studies of a Roman Egyptian Mummy. Rönkkö, E. (Editor and Contributor), Terpstra, T. (Editor and Contributor), Walton, M. (Editor and Contributor), Cooley, V. (Contributor), Cartwright, C. (Contributor), Almer, J. D. (Contributor), Corcoran, L. (Contributor), Sabino, R.C. (Contributor). (2019)

Asensi Amoros, V., Colinart, S., Fabre, M., Gras, C., Guichard, H., Jaunard, D., Watelet, S. “Suvivre au-dela de la mort: les portraits funerares egyptiens du muse des Beaux-Arts de Dijon,” Techne, 13-14, pp. 119-130. (2001)

Bagh, T., Finds From W. M. F. Petrie's Excavations in Egypt in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (2011)

Barr, J., ten Berge, C.M., van Daal, J., van Oppen de Ruiter, B., “The Girl with the Golden Wreath: Four Perspectives on a Mummy Portrait” Special issue on “Ancient Mediterranean Painting” (vol. 2) Arts 8, 92 (2019)

Bassem, G., Corcoran, L., Ibrahim, M., Hammad, A., Samah, M., Allah Abdo, A., Fekry, O., Muhammad Rafat, N. “Discovered Mummy Portraits from the Necropolis of Ancient Philadelphia – Fayum,” D’Archéologie Orientaleen Bulletin de L’institut Français BIFAO 122 p. 245-264 (2022)

Bender Jørgensen, L. “Clavi and Non-clavi: Definitions of Various Bands on Roman Textiles,” Purpureae Vestes III. Textiles y Tintes en la ciudad antiqua. Actas del III Symposium Internacional sobre Textiles y Tintes del Mediterráneo en el mundo antiguo (Naples 2008). pp. 75-81 (2011)

Bierbrier M.L., Editor, Portraits and Masks: Burial Customs in Roman Egypt, British Museum (1997)

Bierbrier, M., Cartwright, C.R., Filer, J., Humphrey, S., Middleton, A. & Walker, S. “New light on ancient faces,” British Museum Magazine 27; 36-39 (1997)

Borg, B., Painted Funerary Portraits. UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Los Angeles (2010)

Borg, B., Most, G. “The Face of the Elite,” Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, Third Series, Vol 8, No. 1. pp. 63-96 (2000)

Borg, B., Mumienportraits: Chronologie und kultureller Kontext, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. Mainz (1996)

Brøns, C. Sargent, M.L., “Pigments And Dyes: The Use of Colourants for the Depiction of Garments on Egyptian Mummy Portraits in The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek” in Purpurae Vestes VI. Textile and Dyes in the Mediterranean Economy and Society. Proceedings of the VIth International Symposium on Textiles and Dyes in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Italy, October 2016). pp. 481-490 (2018)

Brown, H. “Looking at Paintings,” American Artist, pp 56-98 (November 1981)

Buck, R. D. “The Examination and Treatment of a Fayum Portrait,” IIC Conservation of Paintings and the Graphic Arts, pgs. 801-807 (October 9-14, 1972)

Cartwright, C., Spaabæk, L. R., and Svoboda, M. “Portrait mummies from Roman Egypt: ongoing collaborative research on wood identification,” British Museum Technical Research Bulletin 5 pp. 49-58. (2011)

Cartwright, C. and Middleton, A. “Scientific aspects of ancient faces: mummy portraits from Egypt,” British Museum Technical Research Bulletin 2 pp. 59-66 (2008)

Challis, D. What’s in a Face? Mummy Portrait Panels and Identity in Museum Display, in Histories of Egyptology, Routledge. Pp 227-241 (2014)

Cooney, J. D. “Portraits from Roman Egypt,” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Vol. 59, No. 2 pp. 51-55 (February 1972)

Corcoran, L.H., Svoboda, M., Herakleides: A Portrait Mummy from Roman Egypt. J. Paul Getty Trust (2010)

Corcoran, L.H., Portrait Mummies from Roman Egypt (I-IV Centuries A.D.) with a catalogue of portrait mummies in Egyptian Museums, The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (1995)

Davies, E. "Mummy Mania" (Archaeological analysis). Chemistry World. pp. 48-51 (February 2011)

Daal, Jan M. van. “Ancient Incarnations: Depicting Human Flesh in Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt.” MA thesis, University of Amsterdam (2019)

Dopko, C. H., “Reassessment: A Mummy Shroud from The North Carolina Museum of Art.” Graduate thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of North Carolina State University (2004)

Doxiadis, E. The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (1995)

Edgar, C. Graeco-Egyptian coffins, masks and portraits, Cairo (1905)

Emmitt, J,. Furey, L. “A matter of duty”: the Egyptian collection at the Auckland War Memorial Museum Source: Records of the Auckland Museum, Vol. 53. pp. 1-16. Auckland War Memorial Museum. (2018)

Fewkes, J. Walter, “The Graf Collection of Greek Portraits,” in the New England Magazine, pp. 612-625. (1894)

Fischer-Bovet, C. Ethnicity, Greco-Roman Egypt, The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, First Edition. Edited by Bagnall, R.S., et al. pp. 2519–2521 Blackwell Publishing Ltd (2012)

Freccero, A. Fayum Portraits: Documentation and Scientific Analysis of Mummy Portraits Belonging to Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis (2000)

Frel, J., Recent Acquisitions. Ancient Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum. Exhibition catalogue. (1974-1975)

Gehad, B., Corcoran, L.H., Ibrahim, M., Hammad, A., Samah, M., Allah Abdo, A., Fekry, O., Rafat, M. “Newly Discovered Mummy Portraits from the Necropolis of Ancient Philadelphia – Fayum,” In Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’archéologie Orientale, BIFAO 122. pp. 245-264. (2022)

Geoffroy-Schneiter, B., Fayum Portraits, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London (1998)

Graf, T., Ebers, G., The Hellenic Portraits from the Fayum at Present in the Collection of Herr Graf. Nabu Press D. Appleton and Co. Press, NY.1893. (2010)

Graf, T., Richter F. H., von Ostini, F., Catalogue of the Theodor Graf collection of unique ancient Greek portraits, 2,000 years old: Recently Discovered and Now on View in Old Vienna, Midway Plaisance, at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago (1893)

Graf, T., Catalogue of Theodor Graf's gallery of antique portraits from the Hellenistic times. Berlin (Published by their possessor I, Spiegelgasse 3, Vienna) (1889)

Grenfell, B., Hunt, A. The Hibeh Papyri: Part I. London: Egypt Exploration Fund (1906)

Grimm-Stadelmann, I., “Crossing Borders Egyptian Mummy Portraits and Christian Icons,” Artists and Colour in ancient Egypt. Angenot, V., Tiradritti, F. Eds. Proceedings of the colloquium held in Montepulciano, August 22nd – 24, 2008 (2016)

Hanna, H. “Fayoum’s Portraits - Mummies’ Portraits of Egypt. Part one: A historical, artistic and technical study,” In ICOM-CC-Wood, Furniture and Lacquer. pp.52-62. (2006)

Hart, M.L., “A Portrait of a Bearded Man Flanked by Isis and Serapis,” Icon, Cult and Context: Sacred Spaces and Objects in the Classical World. UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. Chapter 7 pp, 79-90 (2016)

Hayward, A., Hayward, K., Swanson, M. History, Culture, and Analysis of the Fayum Mummy Portraits (2014)

Hillyer, L. “The Conservation of a Group of Painted Mummy Cloths from Roman Egypt,” Studies in Conservation , Vol. 29, No. 1 pp. 1-9 (February 1984)

Jimenez, L.M., “Transfiguring the Dead: The Iconography, Commemorative Use, and Materiality of Mummy Shrouds from Roman Egypt.” PhD diss., University of California, Berkeley (2014).

Kirchhof, A., Rehorovics A. “A Face from the Past….Painted Portrait on Wood From a Mummy Grave in Aquincum,” Annalidi Archeologiae Storia antica. X Congresso Internazionale dell’Aipma (Association Internationale pour la Peinture Murale Antique), Napoli, 17-21 September 2007, V: II (2010)

Montserrat, D., “The Representation of Young Males in 'Fayum Portraits,” The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 1993, Vol. 79, pp. 215-225 (1993)

Montserrat, D. “To make death beautiful” Apollo (Archive: 1925-2005); London 150.449 (1999)

Ortiz-García, J. “Painting on Linen Cloth in Antiquity: Shrouds from Roman Egypt as a Source for Research,” TEXTILE, 15:1, 34-47, DOI: 10.1080/14759756.2016.1209870 (2017)

Othman, M., Kamal, E., Abdel-rahman, M., Habib, W., Gehad, B., Zidan, E., Mertah, E., Tarek, A., Shaeen E. “A Re-Exploration of Hawara Mummy Portraits of Young Woman (Demos) With Her Daughter Analecta,” In Papyrologica XXXIII. pp 253-279 (2021).

Newman, N., Harrison, L., Thomas, D., Dyer, J., Taylor, J. “The Study and Conservation of Four Ancient Egyptian Funerary Portraits: Provenance, Conservation History and Structural Treatment.” British Museum Technical Research Bulletin 7 pp. 1-14 (2013)

Park, H, M., Sturm, A., Gates, G., and Anderson-Zhu, L., “Findings from an Examination of Two Mummy Portraits,” The Journal of the Walters Art Museum, Volume 74 (2017)

Parlasca, K. und Seemann, H. Augenblicke: Mumienporträts und ägyptische grabkunst aus römischer zeit, Klinkhardt & Biermann, München (1999)

Parlasca, K. Ritratti di Mummie, Repertorio d'arte dell'Egitto greco-romano, Serie B, Vol. I L'Erma di Bretschneider (1969)

Parlasca, K. Ritratti di Mummie, Repertorio d'arte dell'Egitto greco-romano, Serie B, Vol. II L'Erma di Bretschneider (1977)

Parlasca, K. Ritratti di Mummie, Repertorio d'arte dell'Egitto greco-romano, Serie B, Vol. III L'Erma di Bretschneider (1980)

Parlasca, K. Ritratti di Mummie, Repertorio d'arte dell'Egitto greco-romano, Serie B, Vol. IV L'Erma di Bretschneider (2003)

Parlasca, K., Seemann, H. Augenblicke: Mumienporträts und äygptishche Grabkunst aus römischer Zeit, Munich (1999)

Peck, W. H., (and Detroit Institute of Arts). Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt. Detroit (1967)

Petrie, W.M. F. Hawara, Bialmiu and Arsinoe. London (1889)

Petrie, W.M. F. Roman portraits and Memphis (IV). London (1911)

Petrie, W.M.F. The Hawara Portfolio: Painting of the Roman Age, British School (1913)

Picton, J. Quirke, S., Roberts, P. (editors) Living Images: Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum, Left Coast Press, Inc. Walnut Creek, CA. (2007)

Pitthard, V., Vak, B., Griesser, M., Stanek, S., and Laubenberger, M. “Fayum Portraits from the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna: Conservation Treatment and Research into their Composition,” Technologische Studien 4 pp. 156-175 (2007)

Ragheb Sobhy Ragheb, M.,Mummy portraits: Investigating regional variations. American University in Cairo. Online Theses and Dissertations (2016)

Riggs, C. (editor) The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt, Oxford University Press Includes: many contributors. (2012)

Riggs, C., The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt: Art, Identity, and Funerary Religion, Oxford University Press (2006)

Riggs, C., “A Roman Shroud and its Demotic Inscription in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Vol. XL, S.69-87 (2003)

Riggs, C., “Facing the Dead: Recent Research on the Funerary Art of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt,” American Journal of Archaeology 106 85-101 (2002)

Röhrs, S., Schwerdtfeger, S., Schwarzmaier, A., Reiche, I. Non-invasive micro-analytical study of five mummy portraits and the Severan Tondo of the Antikensammlung, Berlin, in Berliner Beiträge zur Archäometrie, Kunsttechnologie und onservierungswissenschaft. Band 25, Berlin 2017 pp. 137-148 (2017)

Rondot, V., “L’empereur et Le petit prince les deux colosses d’argo. iconographie, symbolique et datation.” La pioche et la plume, Autour du Soudan, du Liban et de la Jordanie, hommages archéologiques à Patrice Lenoble, pp. 413-440 (2011)

Rondot, V., “Graeco-Roman Fayum pantheons as documented by 2nd century painted wooden panels,” Van der Pharaanenzeit bis zur Spätantike. Kulturelle Vielfalt im Fayum Akten def 5. Internationalen Fayum-Konfefenz, 29. Mai bis 1. Juni 2013, Leipzig. pp. 145-162 (2015)

Root, M. C., Faces of Immortality: Egyptian Mummy masks, Painted Portraits and Canopic Jars in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan (1979)

Sabino, R., Sutherland, K., Pouyet, E., Pozzi, F., Walton, M. “Surprise Encounters with Mummy Portraits at the Art Institute of Chicago,” American Institute for Conservation, Paintings Specialty Group Postprints 31 (2018)

Salvant, J., Williams,J., Ganio, M., et. al “A Roman Egyptian Painting Workshop: Technical Investigation of the Portraits from Tebtunis, Egypt,” Archaeometry 60, 4 815-833 (2018)

Shore, A.F., Portrait painting from Roman Egypt, The Trustees of the British Museum London (1962)

Sörries, R. Das Malibu - Tryptychon: Ein Totengefenkbild aus dem römischen Ägyoten und verwandte Werke der spätantiken Talfelmaleri, Verlag J.H. Roll, Germany (2003)

Thomas, C., Brunel-Duverger, L. “Les tableaux cultuels d’Égypte romaine : étude matérielle des deux panneaux du musée du Louvre (Dioscure, MND 193 – E 10815 ; Hèrôn et Lycurgue,6RFML.AE.2020.8.1)” – “Votive panels of Roman Egypt: material examination of two paintings from the Louvre (Dioscure, MND 193 – E 10815 ; Heron and Lycurgus, RFML.AE.2020.8.1)” In Technè n° 55, pp. 119-127 (2023)

Thompson, D. L., Mummy Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Museum (1982)

Thompson, David L. "Four 'Fayum' Portraits in the Getty Museum, The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 2 (1975)

Thompson, D. L., Classes and hands Painted Funerary Portraits from Antinoopolis. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Ph.D. Dissertation (1972)

van Daal, J.M., van Oppen de Ruiter, B. F. “The Young Lady in Pink: New Light on the Life and Afterlife of an Ancient Portrait,” In Studies in Ancient Art And Civilization, Vol. 26 pp. 125-162. https://doi.org/10.12797/SAAC.26.2022.26.07 (2022)

Vandenbeusch, M. “A Soter (re)connection. Five fragments of shrouds from Roman Egypt at the British Museum,” Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Abteilung Kairo, BAND 76/77, 2020/2021 (2022)

Walker, S., Bierbrier, M. Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt, British Museum Press 1997 and Routeldge, New York (2000)

Zaloscer, H. The Mummy-Portrait: an Interpretation. Apollo No. 24, Vol 79 London, pp 101-107 (Feb. 1964)

Zesch, S., Gander, M., Loth, M., Panzer, S., Sutherland, ML., Allam. AH, et al. “Decorated bodies for eternal life: A multidisciplinary study of late Roman Period stucco-shrouded portrait mummies from Saqqara (Egypt),” University of Florence. (2020) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240900

Pigments

“A Study in Purple” in Minerva Archaeology & Ancient Art, January/February 2021. Balfour-Paul, J. Indigo in the Arab World Curzon Press (1997)

Berry, M. “A study of pigments from a Roman Egyptian shrine,” AICCM Bulletin 24. pp. 1-9. (1999)

Bogensperger, I., “Purple and its Various Kinds in Documentary Papyri” in Textile Terminologies (2017), Conference held in Copenhagen 2014: Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the Mediterranean and Europe, 1000 BC to 1000 AD.

Brøns, C. Sargent, M.L., “Pigments And Dyes: The Use of Colourants for the Depiction of Garments on Egyptian Mummy Portraits in The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek” in Purpurae Vestes VI. Textile and Dyes in the Mediterranean Economy and Society. Proceedings of the VIth International Symposium on Textiles and Dyes in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Italy, October 2016). pp. 481-490. (2018)

Claro, A.et al. “The use of microspectrofluorimetry for the characterization of lake pigments,” Talanta 74 pp.922-929 (2008)

Clementi, C., et al. “Vibrational and electronic properties of painting lakes,” Applied Physics A (2008) DOI: 10.1007/s00339-008-4474-6

Colinart, S., Pagès-Camagna, S. and Delange, E. “Le bleu et le vert égyptiens (Egyptian blue and Egyptian green),” Technè: la science au service de l'histoire de l'art et des civilisations. Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France, Paris, France. No. 7. pp. 35-38. (1998)

Cottica, D., Mazzocchin, G.A. “Pots with Coloured Powders from the Forum of Pompeii,” Vessels: Inside and Outside. EMAC Budapest 9th European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics. (2007) pp. 151-158

Daniels, V., Deviese, T., Hacke, M., Higgit, C. “Technological insights into madder pigment production in antiquity,” The British Museum Technical Research Bulletin, Volume 8 pp. 13-28 (2014)

Daniels, V. “Analyses of Copper- and Beeswax- Containing Green Paint on Egyptian Antiquities,” Studies in Conservation, Vol. 52, no. 1 pp. 13-18. (2007)

David, R., Edwards, H.G.M., Farwell, D.W., De Faria, D.L.A., “Raman Spectroscopic Analysis of Ancient Egyptian Pigments,” Archaeometry 43, 4 pp. 461-473 (2001)

Davy, H., “Some Experiments and Observations on the Colours Used in Painting by the Ancients,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 105. Royal Society (1815), pp. 97-124

Delamare, F. “Les terres vertes et leur utilisation en peinture murale romaine. (Green earth and its use in Roman mural painting.),” PACT 17 pp. 345-373 European Study Group on Physical, Chemical and Mathematical Techniques Applied to Archaeology, Rixensart, Belgium [French] (1987)

Feller, R.L., Artists’ Pigments: A Handbook of their History and Characteristics, Volume 1 Red Lead and Minium Cambridge University Press (1994)

Ganio, M., Walton, M., Salvant, J., Williams, J., Lynn, L., Cossairt, O. “Investigating the use of Egyptian blue in Roman Egyptian portraits and panels from Tebtunis, Egypt,” Applied Physics A (2015)

Kirby, J. Spring, M., Higgit, H. “The Technology of Red Lake Pigment Manufacture: Study of the Dyestuff Substraight,” National Gallery Technical Bulletin, Vol. 26 (2005)

Miliani, C. et al. “Blanching of red lake paints in encaustic mummy portraits,” Applied Physics A, published on-line 21 May (2010)

Miliani C., et al. “Acidichromic effects in 1,2-di- and 1,2,4-trihydroxyanthraquinones. A spectrophotometric and fluorimetric study,” Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry 13 pp. 141-150. (2000)

Mouri C., Laursen, R. “Identification of anthraquinone markers for distinguishing Rubia species in madder-dyed textiles by HPLC,” Microchimica Acta 179 pp. 105-113. (2012)

Nicola, M., Acetob, M., Gheroldic, V., Gobettoa, R., Chiari, G. “Egyptian blue in the Castelseprio mural painting cycle. Imaging and evidence of a non-traditional manufacture,” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Volume 19. pp 465-475 (2018)

Pagès-Camagna, S.; and Guichard, H., “Egyptian colours and pigments in French collections: 30 years of physicochemical analyses on 300 objects,” Archetype Publications in association with The Fitzwilliam Museum and Icon Archaeology Group (London) pp. 25-31 (2010)

Rodler, A., Artioli, G., Klein, Klein, S., Fink-Jensen, P. & Brøns, C. ”Provenancing Ancient Pigments: Lead Isotope Analyses of the Copper Compound of Egyptian Blue Pigments from Ancient Mediterranean Artefacts”. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 16, 1-18. (2017)

Rogers, P.W., Jorgensen, L. B., Rast-Eicher, A. editors The Roman Textile Industry and its influence: A birthday Tribute to John Peter Wild. Oxbow (2001)

Saunders D., Spring, M. and Higgitt, C., “Colour change in red lead-containing paint films,” ICOM Committee for Conservation, ICOM-CC: 13th Triennial Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, 22-27 September 2002: preprints pp. 455-463 (2002)

Scott, D. A. “Greener shades of pale: a review of advances in the characterization of ancient Egyptian green pigments,” Archetype Publications in association with The Fitzwilliam Museum and Icon Archaeology Group (London) pp. 32-45 (2010)

Scott, D. A., Warmlander, S., Mazurek, J., Quirke, S. “Examination of some pigments, grounds and media from Egyptian cartonnage fragments in the Petrie Museum, University College London.” Journal of Archaeological Science 36 923–932 (2009)

Siddall, R. “Mineral Pigments in Archaeology: Their Analysis and the Range of Available Materials” Minerals 8(5), 201; (2018)

Skovmøller, A., Brøns, C., Sargent, M.L. “Egyptian Blue. Ancient myths, modern realities.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 29.1, 371-387. (2016)

van Bommel, M. et al. “An investigation of organic red pigments used in paintings by Vincent van Gogh (November 1885 to February 1888),” ArtMatters 3 pp. 111-127. (2002)

Walton, M., Trentelman, K. “Romano-Egyptian Red Lead Pigment: A Subsidiary Commodity of Spanish Silver Mining and Refinement,” Archaeometry 51 (2009)

Welcomme, E., Walter, P., Van Elslande, E., Tsoucaris, G. “Investigation of white pigments used as make-up during the Greco-Roman period” Appl. Phys. A 83, 551–556 DOI: 10.1007/s00339-006-3559-3 (2006)

Wouters, J., Grzywacz, C.M., Claro, A. “Markers for Identification of Faded Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) Colorants by HPLC-PDA-MS: Ancient fibres, pigments, paints and cosmetics derived from antique recipes,” Studies in Conservation, Vol. 55, no. 3 pp. 186-203 (2010)

Ancient Painting

Baines, J., “Color Terminology and Color Classification: Ancient Egyptian Color Terminology and Polychromy,” American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 87, No. 2. pp. 282-297. (June 1985)

Bazzi, M., “Encaustic painting,” The Artist’s Methods and Materials. John Murray publisher. pp. 155-167. (1960)

Brecoulaki, H., Karydas, A. G., Stephens, J., Stephens, A. “Colour and Painting Technique on the Archaic Panels from Pitsa, Corinthia, in Context and Meaning: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference of the Association Pour la Peinture Murale Antique, Athens September 16-20 (2013)

Davies, W.V., (editor) Colour and Painting in Ancient Egypt. The British Museum Press. (2001)

Duell, P., “Evidence for Easel Painting in Ancient Egypt,” Tech Studies Field of Fine Arts, Vol. VIII pp. 175-191 (1939/40)

Dunn, J. Roman Era Funerary Portrait Painting

Freccero, A., Encausto and Ganosis: Beeswax as Paint and Coating during the Roman Era and its applicability in Modern Art, craft and conservation, Gotenborg Studies and Conservation 9. (2002)

Granzotto, C., Arslanoglu, J., “Revealing the binding medium of a Roman Egyptian painted mummy shroud,” Journal of Cultural Heritage. (2017)

Laurie, A.P., Greek and Roman painting Methods: Some comments on the Statements made by Pliny and Vitruvius about Wall and Panel Painting, Cambridge University Press (1910)

Masschelein-Kleiner, L. Ancient Binding Media, Varnishes and Adhesives. ICROM Rome (1985)

Mazurek, J. Svoboda, M., Schilling, M. “GC/MS Binding Media Survey: Beeswax, Oil, Protein, Plant Gum and Resin in Romano-Egyptian Mummy Portraits and Panel Paintings,” Special Issue Advances of Analytical Chemistry in Cultural Heritage, (2019)

Mazurek, J. Svoboda, M., Maish, J., Kawahara, K., Fukakusa, S., Nakazawa, T., Taniguchi, T. “Characterization of binding media in Egyptian Romano portraits using Enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay and Mass spectrometry,” e-Preservation Science. 11, 76-83 (2014)

Imaging of Pigments or Portraits

Conservation and the eastern Mediterranean: contributions to the Istanbul Congress, 20-24 September 2010. Rozeik, C., Roy, A., and Saunders, D. (Editors). International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, London, United Kingdom (2010)
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Aceto, M., Agostino, A., Fenoglio, G., Idone, A., Gulmini,M., Picollo, M., Ricciardie, P., Delaney, J.K., “Characterisation of colourants on illuminated manuscripts by portable fibre optic UV-visible-NIR reflectance spectrophotometry” Anal. Methods, 6, 1488 (2014)

Accorsi, G., Verri, G., Bolognesi, M., Armaroli, N., Clementi, C., Miliani, C., Romani, A. "The Exceptional near-Infrared Luminescence Properties of Cuprorivaite (Egyptian Blue)," Chemical Communications 23: 3392-3394.(2009)

Aldrovandi, A., Buzzegoli, E., Keller, A., Kunzelman, D. "Investigation of Painted Surfaces with a Reflected Uv False Colour Technique," in Art '05: 8th International Conference on Non-Destructive Investigations and Microanalysis for the Diagnostics and Conservation of the Cultural and Environmental Heritage. Lecce (Italy) ( 2005)

Aur`ele J. L. A., Planken, P.C. M., Meloni, S., and Dik, J., “TeraHertz imaging of hidden paint layers on canvas,” Optical Society of America, Vol. 17, No. 5 (2009)

Comelli, D. Capogrosso, V., Orsenigo, C., and Nevin, A., “Dual wavelength excitation for the time‑resolved photoluminescence imaging of painted ancient Egyptian objects,” Heritage Science 4:21 (2016)

Cosentino, A. “Infrared technical photography for art examination,” e-Preservation Science. 13, 1-6 (2016)

Cosentino, A. “Effects of Different Binders on Technical Photography and Infrared Reflectography of 54 Historical Pigments,” International Journal of Conservation Science. Vol 6, issue 3 pp. 287-298 (2015)

Cosentino, A. “Identification of pigments by multispectral imaging; a flowchart method,” Heritage Science 2:8 (2014)

Cosentino, A. “Photoshop and Multispectral Imaging for Art Documentation,” e-Preservation Science 11, pp. 91-98. (2014)

Cosentino, A. “Practical notes on ultraviolet technical photography for art examination” Associação Profissional de Conservadores-Restauradores de Portugal - Conservar Património 21 53-62 | (2015)

Daukantas, P., “Cultural Artifacts in Terahertz Light,” Optics & Photonics News. pp. 28-35 (2018)

Delaney, J., Dooley, K., Radpour, R., Kakoulli, I. "Macroscale Multimodal Imaging Reveals Ancient Painting Production Technology and the Vogue in Greco-Roman Egypt," Scientific Reports 7, no. 1 (2017)

Dulce, M., Ruvalcaba-Sil, J., Claes, P., González-González, D. “False Color and Infrared Imaging for the Identification of Pigments in Paintings” Material. Research. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 1618 Materials Research Society DOI: 10.1557/opl.2014.451 (2014)

Dyer, J., Tamburini, D., O’Connell, E.R., Harrison, A. “A multispectral imaging approach integrated into the study of Late Antique textiles from Egypt,” PLoS ONE 13(10), e0204699. (2018)

Dyer J., Sotiropoulou, S. “A technical step forward in the integration of visible‑induced luminescence imaging methods for the study of ancient polychromy” Herit Sci 5:24 (2017)

Dyer, J., Verri, G., Cupitt, J., Multispectral Imaging in Reflectance and Photo-induced Luminescence modes: A User Manual Version 1 (Oct. 2013)

Gonzalez, V., Gourier, D., Calligaro, T., Toussaint,K., Wallez, G., Menu, M. Revealing the Origin and “History of Lead-White Pigments by Their Photoluminescence Properties” Anal. Chem. 89, 2909−2918 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.6b04195 (2017)

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Webb, Keats. E., Summerour, E., Giaccai, J., “A case study using multiband and hyperspectral imaging for the identification and characterization of materials on archaeological Andean painted textiles,” Textile Specialty Group Postprints Volume 24: 23-35 (2014)

Scientific Analysis

Baronti, S., Casini, A., Lotti, F., Porcinai, S. “Multispectral imaging system for the mapping of pigments in works of art by use of principal-component analysis,” Applied Optics 37, 1299 (1998)

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Berrie, B. “An Improved Method for Identifying Red Lakes on Art and Historical Artifacts,” PNA, Vol. 106 No. 36 (2009) pp. 15095-15096

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Brøns, C., Rasmussen, K.L., Lluveras, A., Melchiorre di Crescenzo, M., Stacey, R. 2018. “Painting the Palace of Apries I: Binding media and coatings,” Heritage Science 6.6, (2018)

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Wood

Cartwright, C. R. Identification of wood samples for Davies, W.V. “Ancient Egyptian timber imports; an analysis of wooden coffins in the British Museum,” W. Vivian Davies & Louise Schofield (eds.) Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant. Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC British Museum Press, London. pp. 146-156. (1995)

Cartwright, C.R. “Egyptian mummy portraits: examining the woodworkers’ craft,” Portraits and Masks. Burial Customs in Roman Egypt. M. Bierbrier (ed.) British Museum Press, London. pp. 106-111 (1997a)

Cartwright, C.R. “Wood identifications,” Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt Walker, S., & Bierbrier M. (ed.) British Museum Press, London (1997b)

Cartwright, C.R. ‘The Bronze Age wooden tomb furniture from Jericho; the microscopical reconstruction of a distinctive carpentry tradition,” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 137. pp. 99–138 (2005)

Cartwright, C.R., Middleton, A.P. “Piecing together ancient Egypt,” British Museum Magazine 33. pp. 25-26 (1999)

Cartwright, C.R., Middleton, A.P. “Scientific aspects of ancient faces: mummy portraits from Egypt,” British Museum Technical Research Bulletin 2. pp. 59-66 (2008)

Cartwright, C.R., “The principles, procedures and pitfalls in identifying archaeological and historical wood samples,” Annals of Botany 116 (1). pp. 1-13. (2015)

Gale, R. & Cutler, D. Plants in archaeology, Westbury Publishing, London and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2000)

Gale, R., Gasson, P., Hepper, F.N. & Killen, G. “Wood,” Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology, ed. P.T. Nicholson and I. Shaw, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. pp. 334–371. (2000)

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Wheeler, E.A., Pearson, R.G., LaPasha, C.A., Zack, T. & Hatley, W. Computer-aided wood identification, North Carolina Agriculture Research Service Bulletin 474 (1986)

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Technology

Forbes, R.J., Studies in Ancient Technology, Vol. IV, E.J. Brill (linen) (1987)

Lucas, A., Ancient Egyptian Materials and Industries, Fourth Edition revised, Histories & Mysteries of Man LTD., London, England (1989)

Nicholson and Shaw (editors), Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technologies, Cambridge University Press (2000)

Conservation

Jaeschke, R., Jaeschke, H. “The cleaning and consolidation of Egyptian Encaustic Mummy Portraits,” IIC Cleaning, Retouching and Coatings Preprints. pp. 16-18 (September 1990)

Jaeschke, R., Jaeschke, H. “Early Conservation Techniques in the Petrie Museum,” in Watkins S. and Brown, C. (eds.), Conservation of Ancient Egyptian Materials. London: United Kingdom Institute for Conservation Archaeology Section, pp. 17-23 (1988)

Martin, M., Reisman, S. “The Surface and Structural Treatment of a Fayum Portrait,” Conservation of Wood and Painting and Decorative Arts IIC Preprints. pp. 191-198 (1978)

Newman, N., Harrison, L., Thomas, D., Dyer, J., Taylor, J. “A Study and Conservation of Four Ancient Egyptian Funerary Portraits: Provenance, Conservation History and Structural Treatment,” The British Museum Technical Research Bulletin 7 (2013)

Ramer, B. “The Technology, Examination and Conservation of the Fayum Portraits in the Petrie Museum,” Studies in Conservation, Vol. 24, No. 1 pp. 1-13 (February 1979)

Sack, S.P., Tahk, C., Peters jr. T., “A Technical Examination of an Ancient Egyptian Painting on Canvas,” Studies in Conservation 26. pp. 15-23 (1981)

Scott, D.A., Dennis, M., Khandekar, N., Joy Keeney, J., Carson, D., and Swartz Dodd, L. “An Egyptian Cartonnage of the Graeco-Roman Period: Examination and Discoveries,” Studies in Conservation, Vol. 48, No. 1. pp. 41-56. (2003)

Collection, Sites, and History

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Lembke, K. “City of the Dead: Tuna el-Gebel,” The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt. Edited by Christina Riggs (2012)

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MCFadden, S., “Art on the Edge: The Late Roman Wall Painting of Amheida, Egypt.” In Antike Malerei zwischen Lokalstil und Zeitstil. Akten des XI. Int. Kolloquiums der AIPMA, 13.-17. September 2010 in Ephesos, N. Zimmerman (ed). Wien, pp. 359-370 (2014)

Pearson, S. Egyptian Airs: The Life of Luxury in Roman Wall Painting. UC Berkeley. ProQuest ID: Pearson_berkeley_0028E_15523. Merritt ID: ark:/13030/m5tt7vht. (2015)

Pushkin Museum – Restoration of a Roman Shroud II-nd c. AD. from the Collection of The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.

Ribechini, E., Orsini, S., Silvano, F., Colombini, M.P. Py-GC/MS, GC/MS and FTIR investigations on LATE Roman-Egyptian adhesives from opus sectile: New insights into ancient recipes and technologies. Analytica Chimica Acta 638. pp. 79–87 (2009)

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