File:Mummy portrait of a woman between Osiris and Anubis from Hawara - Berlin ÄM 11652.jpg

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English: - object type: mummy portrait
- painting technique / material: tempera on linen shroud

- description: young woman standing between Osiris (body in form of a mummy) and Anubis; the colourful but flat type of drawing and the idealized, non-individual portrait clearly stand in the tradition of egyptian art, only the hairstyle echoes the Roman fashion of the imperial family during the reign of Claudius - proposed period / date: - (Parlasca 1969-2003) late claudian, ca. 50-54 AD - preserved height of the shroud: 182 cm - findspot: Saqqara - excavator / first owner: R. Mosse - museum / inventory number: Berlin, Neues Museum ÄM 11652 - bibliography: - Klaus Parlasca, Repertorio d´arte dell´Egitto greco-romano, Serie B, Ritratti di mummie, Volume I, Palermo 1969, cat. 17 - Klaus Parlasca, Hellmut Seemann (ed.), Augenblicke. Mumienporträts und ägyptische Grabkunst aus römischer Zeit, München 1999, 42

- 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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