- object type: mummy portrait
<pre>- painting technique / material: tempera on wood panel
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<p>- type of mummy (if preserved together with the portrait): unknown 
- description of the depicted person: elderly woman with greyish hair, fillet in the hair, simple hairstyle not following the Roman fashion, individual facial features
- proposed period / date: 
- (Parlasca 1969-2003 / Parlasca / Seemann 1999) ca. 300-325 AD
- (Borg 1998) late antonine / severan (dated on the basis of a workshop connexion)
- height: 31,2 cm
- width: 18,5 cm
- findspot: er-Rubayat
- excavator / first owner: Greville Chester
- museum / inventory number: London, British Museum 1890,0921.1 / P87
- bibliography: 
- Klaus Parlasca, Repertorio d´arte dell´Egitto greco-romano, Serie B, Ritratti di mummie, Volume III, Roma 1980, cat. 517
- Barbara Borg, Mumienporträts. Chronologie und kultureller Kontext, Mainz 1996, 108, plate 49,2
- Barbara Borg, „Der zierlichste Anblick der Welt ...“. Ägyptische Porträtmumien, Mainz 1998, 62-63.100, fig. 75
- Klaus Parlasca, Hellmut Seemann (ed.), Augenblicke. Mumienporträts und ägyptische Grabkunst aus römischer Zeit, München 1999, cat. 81
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