- object type: mummy portrait
<pre>- painting technique / material: tempera on linen shroud, wooden coffin
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<p>- type of mummy (if preserved together with the portrait): shrouded mummy
- description of the depicted person: boy, aged 7-10 years, painted as whole person, dressed in long white mantle, wearing white sandals, 4 dark marks on the forehead, holding olive twigs
- proposed period / date: 
- (Parlasca 1969-2003) severan, ca. 200-225 AD
- (Doxiadis 1995) late antonine / early severan, ca. 180-211 AD
- museum: 230-250 AD
- height: 85 cm
- width: 21.5 cm
- findspot: Egypt (exact location unknown)
- museum / inventory number: London, British Museum EA 6715 / Salt 1821
- bibliography: 
- Klaus Parlasca, Repertorio d´arte dell´Egitto greco-romano, Serie B, Ritratti di mummie, Volume II, Roma 1977, cat. 413
- Euphrosyne Doxiadis, The Mysterious Fayum Portraits. Faces from Ancient Egypt, London 1995, cat. 36
- <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA6715">https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA6715</a>
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