File:Mummy portrait of Artemidoros from Hawara - London BM 1888-0806-8 - 06.jpg
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English: - object type: mummy portrait
- painting technique / material: encaustic on limewood panel, leaf-gilded - type of mummy (if preserved together with the portrait): cartonnage body-case, decorated with egyptian mythological scenes - description of the depicted person: young man (age ca. 20) wearing golden wreath - inscription on the chest: APTEMIΔΩPE EYΨYXI (Artemidoros, have a good life!) - proposed period / date: - (Parlasca 1969-2003) early hadrianic - (Doxiadis 1995) traianic, ca. 98-117 AD - museum: traianic / early hadrianic, ca. 100-120 AD - length of the whole mummy: 167 / 171 cm - findspot: Hawara - excavator: William M. Flinders Petrie - museum / inventory number: London, British Museum 1888,0806.8 / EA 21810 - bibliography: - Klaus Parlasca, Repertorio d´arte dell´Egitto greco-romano, Serie B, Ritratti di mummie, Volume I, Palermo 1969, cat. 162 - Euphrosyne Doxiadis, The Mysterious Fayum Portraits. Faces from Ancient Egypt, London 1995, fig. 57-58 - https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA21810 - Please note: Some museums permit photography of their exhibits for private, educational, scientific, non-commercial purposes only. If you intend to use the photo for commercial aims, I would recommend you to contact the museum. |
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