Project « Clone of Face to Face : The people behind the mummy portraits »
An initiative of the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam, this project brings together the August Kestner Museum (Hannover, Germany), The Royal Museum of Mariemont (Morlanwelz, Belgium), the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen (Mannheim, Germany) and the Sammlung des Ägyptologischen Instituts at Heidelberg University (Germany).
It is part of a research project which aims to examine 12 Fayum mummy portraits dating from the 1st to 4th centuries CE using the latest broad spectral imaging technologies. The results will give the researchers new data and new tools to better understand some of the lesser-known portraits.
The project began in March 2023 with the aim of holding an exhibition in Amsterdam in October that year. In the short term, the analysis results will be input into the APPEAR international database managed by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
Arnaud Quertinmont
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Each curator is responsible for one of the museum sections (Egyptian & Near Eastern Antiquities, Greek & Roman Antiquities, Regional & Estate Archaeology, Decorative Arts, Non-European Arts, Regional & Estate History), its preservation and development. They also create the content for the Museum’s permanent and temporary exhibitions in their own specific field.