Youth in a Tunic and a Mantle in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sept. 2007

Youth in a Tunic and Mantle
ca. 140-190 AD
From Tuna el Gebel
Plaster, paint, lapis and glass-inlaid eyes

Accession # 12.182.46

This youth's black hair is combed into a slightly wild style reminiscent of portraits fashionable in the Greek-speaking eastern provinces of the Roman Empire in the mid- and later- 2nd century AD. Over his white tunic with rose clavi (stripes) he wears a white mantle with a woven H-motif visible below his left hand. The youth's head is raised on a rather high support decorated with Egyptian motifs. Flanking his neck are banks of three gold uraei, and at the back of his head is the falcon god Re-Harakhty, flanked by two of the sons of Horus, Qebesnuef and Duamutef.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.