File:Mummy portrait of a woman from Hawara - London BM 1994-0521-11.jpg

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

- type of mummy (if preserved together with the portrait): unknown - description of the depicted person: woman of middle age with great round eyes, wearing mauve tunic and mantle - proposed period / date: - (Parlasca 1969-2003) early antonine - (Doxiadis 1995) iulio-claudian, ca. 25-50 AD - (Parlasca / Seemann 1999) ca. 54-69 AD - museum: neronian, ca. 55-70 AD - height: 41.6 cm - width: 21.5 cm - findspot: Hawara - excavator: William M. Flinders Petrie - museum / inventory number: London, British Museum 1994,0521.11 / EA 74713 - formerly: London, National Gallery 1270 - bibliography: - Klaus Parlasca, Repertorio d´arte dell´Egitto greco-romano, Serie B, Ritratti di mummie, Volume I, Palermo 1969, cat. 80 - Euphrosyne Doxiadis, The Mysterious Fayum Portraits. Faces from Ancient Egypt, London 1995, cat. 54 - Barbara Borg, Mumienporträts. Chronologie und kultureller Kontext, Mainz 1996, 166 - Klaus Parlasca, Hellmut Seemann (ed.), Augenblicke. Mumienporträts und ägyptische Grabkunst aus römischer Zeit, München 1999, cat. 19 - https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA74713

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