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AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD MUMMY PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 2ND CENTURY A.D. Painted in the encaustic technique, depicting a young man, on a cream ground, his thick curly black hair falling in wisps onto his forehead, with arching eyebrows, his almond-shaped eyes with long lashes and dark irises, his full lips pursed, with a mustache and a short beard, wearing a white cloak preserving gilding on the neck and blue delineating folds 13½ in. (34.3 cm.) high

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Theodor Graf (1840-1903), Vienna. with J.J. Klejman, New York. Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 10-11 June 1983, lot 39. Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1995, lot 230.

with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 7 July 1996 (Art of the Ancient World vol. IX, no. 241).
Date CIRCA LATE 2ND CENTURY A.D.
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