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An Egyptian encaustic painted and gilt wood mummy portrait of a man Roman Period, circa early 2nd Century A.D. The young man shown in three-quarter profile, his face turned to the front, against a gilded background, some still remaining, wearing a white tunic with mantle, the thick dark hair closely-trimmed and crowned with a golden laurel wreath in added gilt, the facial features sensitively painted with strong black brows, large brown eyes and a long straight nose, the full lips in reddish-pink, with a moustache, 36cm x 20cm FOOTNOTES Provenance: UK private collection. With David Ghezelbash, Paris, 2013. 'H' Collection, France, formed in the 1940s-60s.

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There is a portrait of a young man with similarly styled hair, moustache and gilt wreath, dated A.D. 120-130, in The Brooklyn Museum, New York, acc. no. 40.386. For another portrait (but of a more mature man) with a gilded background and wreath in the National Gallery, London, acc. no. 3932, cf. S. Walker and M. Bierbrier, Ancient Faces, Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt, British Museum, London, 1997, pp. 94-5, no. 85.
Date circa early 2nd Century A.D.
Source https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22837/lot/25/
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