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A PAINTED WOOD MUMMY PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 55-70 A.D. Probably from Hawara, painted in encaustic, depicted in her youth in three-quarter right view, with a triangular face and a long neck, her complexion pale, with a pointed chin, thick eye brows, large eyes with heavy lids, a slender nose and a small mouth with full pink lips, her long black hair with snail-like curls arching across the forehead, obscuring her left ear and falling along her neck, wearing white disk-shaped earrings centered by emerald green, her bluish-white tunic with a dark blue clavus, a mantle perhaps draped over her left shoulder concealing the second clavus, on a cream background, preserving traces of the linen mummy wrappings along the upper and lower edges including a section, lower right, of layered lozenge patterning 15 5/8 in. (39.6 cm.) high

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Thierry Cambelong, Switzerland, 1970s.
Date CIRCA 55-70 A.D.
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