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English: - object type: mummy portrait 
- painting technique / material: tempera on wood panel

- type of mummy (if preserved together with the portrait): unknown - description of the depicted person: woman, called "Zenobia", pyramid-shaped hair - proposed period / date: - (Parlasca 1969-2003) ca. 325-350 AD - (Doxiadis 1995 / Borg 1996) early antonine, ca. 138-161 AD - height: 32,5 cm - width: 20,5 cm - findspot: unknown, probably Memphis - excavator / first owner: Ippolito Rosellini 1829 - museum / inventory number: Firenze, Museo Archaeologico Nazionale - bibliography: - Klaus Parlasca, Repertorio d´arte dell´Egitto greco-romano, Serie B, Ritratti di mummie, Volume III, Roma 1980, cat. 554 - Euphrosyne Doxiadis, The Mysterious Fayum Portraits. Faces from Ancient Egypt, London 1995, cat. 1 - Barbara Borg, Mumienporträts. Chronologie und kultureller Kontext, Mainz 1996, 50.87.104-105 - Barbara Borg, „Der zierlichste Anblick der Welt ...“. Ägyptische Porträtmumien, Mainz 1998, 9.104

- Please note: The above museum permits photography of its exhibits for private, educational, scientific, non-commercial purposes. If you intend to use the photo for any commercial aime, please contact the museum and ask for permission.
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