- object type: mummy portrait
<pre>- painting technique / material: encaustic on wood panel
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<p>- type of mummy (if preserved together with the portrait): unknown
- description of the depicted person: young woman, golden wreath painted in yellow wax colour, wearing a greenish-yellow chiton and an orange-red himation; demotic inscription over the neck (language and length of inscription unusual, reading and translation according to W. Brunsch 1985): "Eirene, daughter of Silvanus, her mother is Senpnoutis. May her soul live before Osiris-Sokar, the great god, lord of Abydos". Thus her father bore a Roman name, her mother an Egyptian name.
- proposed period / date: 
- (Parlasca 1969-2003) claudian, ca. 41-54 AD
- (Doxiadis 1995) time of Caligula / early claudian, ca. 37-50 AD
- (Borg 1996) early claudian
- height: 37 cm
- width: 22 cm
- findspot: unknown
- museum / inventory number: Stuttgart, Landesmuseum Württemberg, Antikensammlung 7.2 (formerly 131 / Mp SS 2/8)
- bibliography: 
- Klaus Parlasca, Repertorio d´arte dell´Egitto greco-romano, Serie B, Ritratti di mummie, Volume I, Palermo 1969, cat. 12
- Euphrosyne Doxiadis, The Mysterious Fayum Portraits. Faces from Ancient Egypt, London 1995, cat. 111
- Barbara Borg, Mumienporträts. Chronologie und kultureller Kontext, Mainz 1996, 30-31.91.106.122.151.155.166.171.192, plate 1,2
- Barbara Borg, „Der zierlichste Anblick der Welt ...“. Ägyptische Porträtmumien, Mainz 1998, 40.63.73.88, fig 92
- Klaus Parlasca, Hellmut Seemann (ed.), Augenblicke. Mumienporträts und ägyptische Grabkunst aus römischer Zeit, München 1999, 72
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