ABSTRACT
This chapter presents several portraits that were excavated in the cemeteries at Hawara by W. M. Flinders Petrie, in three campaigns conducted in 1887–8, 1888–9 and 1910–11. The mummies, of which only 1–2 per cent had portrait panels, were found packed into pits lined with stone or brick in a manner suggesting that the portraits had formerly been entombed or at least displayed elsewhere. Many of the painted panels were detached from their mummies, the latter being too poorly preserved to transport from the site. Some finds were deposited in the Cairo Museum. The objects exported by Petrie were dispersed among his financial backers in the United Kingdom, where they are now held in national, local and university collections, most notably the Petrie Museum in University College London, where Petrie held the first chair of Egyptology endowed by Amelia Edwards.
