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Hermione Grammatike

Photo credit: Girton College, University of Cambridge

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The Roman portrait mummy, known as Hermione, is part of the Egyptian collection in the Lawrence Room Collections at Girton College. She dates from the early first century AD, and was discovered in the Roman cemetery at Hawara, south west of Cairo, by the pioneering archaeologist William Flinders Petrie. The label on her portrait marks her out as a young woman distinguished for learning and thus truly exceptional in the Julio-Claudian age. Because of the inscription, Flinders Petrie and his wife, Hilda, were keen that she should go to a women's college, and in 1911 Girton's students and senior members quickly raised the considerable sum of £20, with an extra £5 and 10s, to pay for a case, to ensure that Hermione went to Girton.

Girton College, University of Cambridge

Cambridge

Title

Hermione Grammatike

Date

AD 1–100

Medium

encaustic (oil, wax, & pigment) on linen

Measurements

H 30.5 x W 21 cm

Accession number

LR.1

Acquisition method

purchased by the students and senior members at Girton College, 1911

Work type

Painting

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Girton College, University of Cambridge

Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB3 0JG England

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