File:Mummy portrait of a woman from Egypt- Berlin ÄM 22606.jpg

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English: - object type: mummy portrait
- painting technique / material: tempera on wood panel

- type of mummy (if preserved together with the portrait): unknown - description of the depicted person: woman with full face, delicate curls, in lila chiton with pronounced folds - proposed period / date: - (Parlasca 1969-2003 / Parlasca / Seemann 1999) early antonine, ca. 140-150 AD - (Doxiadis 1995 / Borg 1996) hadrianic, ca. 117-138 AD - perhaps the same painter as the "Zenobia" in Firenze (perhaps working at Thebes?) - height: 40 cm - width: 16,7 cm - findspot: unknown - museum / inventory number: Berlin, Neues Museum ÄM 22606 - bibliography: - Klaus Parlasca, Repertorio d´arte dell´Egitto greco-romano, Serie B, Ritratti di mummie, Volume I, Palermo 1969, cat. 129 - Euphrosyne Doxiadis, The Mysterious Fayum Portraits. Faces from Ancient Egypt, London 1995, cat. 108 - Barbara Borg, Mumienporträts. Chronologie und kultureller Kontext, Mainz 1996, 15.44-45 - Barbara Borg, „Der zierlichste Anblick der Welt ...“. Ägyptische Porträtmumien, Mainz 1998, 20.98, fig 121 - Klaus Parlasca, Hellmut Seemann (ed.), Augenblicke. Mumienporträts und ägyptische Grabkunst aus römischer Zeit, München 1999, cat. 123

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