- object type: mummy portrait
<p>- painting technique / material: encaustic on wood panel
- type of mummy (if preserved together with the portrait): rhombic-wrapped mummy - description of the depicted person: young girl (age ca. 4-5), fillet in the hair - proposed period / date: - (Parlasca 1969-2003) early flavian, ca. 70-80 AD - height (of the complete mummy: 83 cm - max. height (of the visible portrait panel): 22,5 cm - max. width (of the visible portrait panel): 17,5 cm - findspot: Hawara - excavator / first owner: William M. Flinders Petrie - museum / inventory number: München, Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst 1307 - bibliography: - Klaus Parlasca, Repertorio d´arte dell´Egitto greco-romano, Serie B, Ritratti di mummie, Volume I, Palermo 1969, cat. 85 - Barbara Borg, Mumienporträts. Chronologie und kultureller Kontext, Mainz 1996, 13.129.160 - Barbara Borg, „Der zierlichste Anblick der Welt ...“. Ägyptische Porträtmumien, Mainz 1998, 58, fig. 71
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