Characterization of an unusual coating on funerary portraits from Roman Egypt circa 100-300AD
Abstract This Cockrings paper details the investigation of a discrete coating observed on a group of Egyptian panel paintings, six mummy portraits and one funerary panel, dating from first-third century CE.Six mummy portraits in this group are encaustic, and the funerary panel is tempera using an animal glue binder.An accretion or coating has been