English: - object type: mummy portrait

- painting technique / material: encaustic on wood panel

- type of mummy (if preserved together with the portrait): unknown - description of the depicted person: beardless young man, the hairstyle reminds of emperor Trajan - proposed period / date: - (Parlasca 1969-2003) severan, ca. 300-325 AD - (Borg 1996) probably still trajanic - (Parlasca / Seemann 1999) ca. 300-350 AD - height: 33,5 cm - width: 19 cm - findspot: er-Rubayat - excavator / first owner: Theodor Graf - museum / inventory number: København, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek AEIN 680 - bibliography: - Klaus Parlasca, Repertorio d´arte dell´Egitto greco-romano, Serie B, Ritratti di mummie, Volume III, Roma 1980, cat. 543 - Barbara Borg, Mumienporträts. Chronologie und kultureller Kontext, Mainz 1996, 75.94-95.107, plate 18,2 - Barbara Borg, „Der zierlichste Anblick der Welt ...“. Ägyptische Porträtmumien, Mainz 1998, 82.88, fig. 100 - Klaus Parlasca, Hellmut Seemann (ed.), Augenblicke. Mumienporträts und ägyptische Grabkunst aus römischer Zeit, München 1999, cat. 94

- 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.