object type: mummy portrait
<p>- painting technique / material: encaustic on wood panel, gilding
- type of mummy (if preserved together with the portrait): rhombic-wrapped mummy (photo of the complete mummy before the portrait panel has been separated from the mummy) - description of the depicted person: young woman, multiple necklaces, pearl ear-pendants, the hair leaving a triangular part of the front open is somewhat ununsual for the hadrianic time - proposed period / date: - (Parlasca 1969-2003) trajanic, ca. 98-117 AD - (Borg 1996) hadrianic, ca. 117-138 AD - height: 33,5 cm - width: 22 cm - findspot: Hawara - excavator / first owner: William M. Flinders Petrie - museum / inventory number: München, Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst 2972 - bibliography: - Klaus Parlasca, Repertorio d´arte dell´Egitto greco-romano, Serie B, Ritratti di mummie, Volume I, Palermo 1969, cat. 115 - Barbara Borg, Mumienporträts. Chronologie und kultureller Kontext, Mainz 1996, 16.41.105.129 - Klaus Parlasca, Hellmut Seemann (ed.), Augenblicke. Mumienporträts und ägyptische Grabkunst aus römischer Zeit, München 1999, 54-55
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