- object type: mummy portrait
<pre>- painting technique / material: encaustic ("Punic wax"?) on wood panel
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<p>- type of mummy (if preserved together with the portrait): unknown
- description of the depicted person: boy with soft, feminine facial features, with "Horus lock" behind his right ear, wearing a white chiton with lila clavi and a lila mantle
- proposed period / date: 
- (Parlasca 1969-2003/ Doxiadis 1995) antonine, ca. 138-192 AD
- height: 33,5 cm
- width: 17,5 cm
- findspot: er-Rubayat
- excavator / first owner: Theodor Graf
- museum / inventory number: Berlin, Altes Museum (Antikensammlung) 31161/4
- bibliography: 
- Klaus Parlasca, Repertorio d´arte dell´Egitto greco-romano, Serie B, Ritratti di mummie, Volume II, Roma 1977, cat. 254
- Euphrosyne Doxiadis, The Mysterious Fayum Portraits. Faces from Ancient Egypt, London 1995, cat. 26
- Barbara Borg, Mumienporträts. Chronologie und kultureller Kontext, Mainz 1996, 114-115
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