Thursday, June 19, 2008

Mummy in law?

I dote upon mummies!
The British Museum has a particularly interesting collection.
Here's one I quite liked:

And this mummy portrait from the Roman period, a lovely encaustic panel painting of A.D. ca. 160, really reminded me of my former mother in law!
She has the same elegance.

1 comment:

Birrd said...

It does look like Vivian! Wow!