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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: boy with "Horus-lock" behind his right ear, wearing a white chiton with purple clavi and a white himation - proposed period / date: - (Parlasca 1969-2003) ca. 250-300 AD - (Borg 1998) ca. 175-200 AD - height: 32 cm - width: 16 cm - findspot: er-Rubayat - excavator / first owner: Theodor Graf - museum / inventory number: Berlin, Altes Museum (Antikensammlung) 31161/41 - bibliography: - Klaus Parlasca, Repertorio d´arte dell´Egitto greco-romano, Serie B, Ritratti di mummie, Volume II, Roma 1977, cat. 474 - Barbara Borg, Mumienporträts. Chronologie und kultureller Kontext, Mainz 1996, 12-13.105.114 plate 42,1 - Barbara Borg, „Der zierlichste Anblick der Welt ...“. Ägyptische Porträtmumien, Mainz 1998, 68.95, fig. 116

- 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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