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

- type of mummy (if preserved together with the portrait): unknown - description of the depicted person: young man - proposed period / date: - (Parlasca 1969-2003) late severan, ca. 230 AD - (Doxiadis 1995) late severan, ca. 218-235 AD - museum: severan: 193-235 AD - height: 39 cm - width: 19 cm - findspot: Tanis - excavators: Grenfell and Hunt - museum / inventory number: Oxford, Ashmolean Museum AN 1896-1908.E.3755 - bibliography: - Klaus Parlasca, Repertorio d´arte dell´Egitto greco-romano, Serie B, Ritratti di mummie, Volume II, Roma 1977, cat. 469 - Euphrosyne Doxiadis, The Mysterious Fayum Portraits. Faces from Ancient Egypt, London 1995, cat. / fig. 31 - https://collections.ashmolean.org/object/746516

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