- 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: boy with "Horus-lock" behind his right ear, wearing a white chiton with purple clavi, each clavus beeing split in two at the end
- proposed period / date: 
- (Parlasca 1969-2003 / museum catalogue) middle antonine, ca. 150 AD
- (Parlasca / Seemann 1999) ca. 100-150 AD
- height: 36 cm
- width: 16,5 cm
- findspot: er-Rubayat
- excavator / first owner: Theodor Graf
- museum / inventory number: Berlin, Altes Museum (Antikensammlung) 31161/23
- bibliography: 
- Klaus Parlasca, Repertorio d´arte dell´Egitto greco-romano, Serie B, Ritratti di mummie, Volume II, Roma 1977, cat. 473
- Barbara Borg, Mumienporträts. Chronologie und kultureller Kontext, Mainz 1996, 114-115.166, plate 31
- Barbara Borg, „Der zierlichste Anblick der Welt ...“. Ägyptische Porträtmumien, Mainz 1998, 55.68-69, fig. 69
- Klaus Parlasca, Hellmut Seemann (ed.), Augenblicke. Mumienporträts und ägyptische Grabkunst aus römischer Zeit, München 1999, cat. 56
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