- object type: mummy portrait
<pre>- painting technique / material: encaustic on wood panel, gilding
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<p>- 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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