- object type: mummy portrait
<pre>- painting technique / material: tempera on linen shroud
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<p>- description: young woman standing between Osiris (body in form of a mummy) and Anubis; the colourful but flat type of drawing and the idealized, non-individual portrait clearly stand in the tradition of egyptian art, only the hairstyle echoes the Roman fashion of the imperial family during the reign of Claudius
- proposed period / date: 
- (Parlasca 1969-2003) late claudian, ca. 50-54 AD
- preserved height of the shroud: 182 cm
- findspot: Saqqara
- excavator / first owner: R. Mosse
- museum / inventory number: Berlin, Neues Museum ÄM 11652
- bibliography: 
- Klaus Parlasca, Repertorio d´arte dell´Egitto greco-romano, Serie B, Ritratti di mummie, Volume I, Palermo 1969, cat. 17
- Klaus Parlasca, Hellmut Seemann (ed.), Augenblicke. Mumienporträts und ägyptische Grabkunst aus römischer Zeit, München 1999, 42
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