- 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: man with curly hair and beard, characterized as soldier by a sword-belt (balteus) and a dark blue cloak (sagum) over his left shoulder
- proposed period / date: 
- (Parlasca 1969-2003) late antonine, ca. 170 AD
- (Doxiadis 1995) probably hadrianic, ca. 117-138 AD
- (museum catalogue) ca. 140 AD
- height: 41,8 cm
- width: 21 cm
- findspot: er-Rubayat
- excavator / first owner: Theodor Graf
- museum / inventory number: Berlin, Altes Museum (Antikensammlung) 31161/3
- bibliography: 
- Klaus Parlasca, Repertorio d´arte dell´Egitto greco-romano, Serie B, Ritratti di mummie, Volume II, Roma 1977, cat. 335
- Euphrosyne Doxiadis, The Mysterious Fayum Portraits. Faces from Ancient Egypt, London 1995, cat. 2
- Barbara Borg, Mumienporträts. Chronologie und kultureller Kontext, Mainz 1996, 88.92.156ff
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