File:Mummy portrait of a soldier from er-Rubayat - Berlin AS 31161-2.jpg

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English: - object type: mummy portrait 
- painting technique / material: encaustic on wood, gilding

- type of mummy (if preserved together with the portrait): unknown - description of the depicted person: bearded man, golden wreath in the hair, dressed in a white chiton, characterised as a soldier by the sword-belt (balteus) und the dark cloak (sagum) over his left shoulder - proposed period / date: - (Parlasca 1969-2003) ca. 140 AD - (Doxiadis 1995) ca. 200-250 AD - (Borg 1996) late trajanic / hadrianic - (Parlasca / Seemann 1999) ca. 110-140 AD - height: 41,5 cm - width: 19 cm - findspot: er-Rubayat - excavator / first owner: Theodor Graf - museum / inventory number: Berlin, Altes Museum (Antikensammlung) 31161/2 - bibliography: - Klaus Parlasca, Repertorio d´arte dell´Egitto greco-romano, Serie B, Ritratti di mummie, Volume II, Roma 1977, cat. 334 - Euphrosyne Doxiadis, The Mysterious Fayum Portraits. Faces from Ancient Egypt, London 1995, cat. 15 - Barbara Borg, Mumienporträts. Chronologie und kultureller Kontext, Mainz 1996, 75.156ff - Klaus Parlasca, Hellmut Seemann (ed.), Augenblicke. Mumienporträts und ägyptische Grabkunst aus römischer Zeit, München 1999, cat. 49

- Please note: The above museum permits photography of its exhibits for private, educational, scientific, non-commercial purposes. If you intend to use the photo for any commercial aime, please contact the museum and ask for permission.
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