AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD MUMMY PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN
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AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD MUMMY PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN

ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

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AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD MUMMY PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN
ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
12 ¼ in. (31.1 cm.) high
Provenance
Said to be from er-Rubayat.
Theodor Graf (1840-1903), Vienna.
Flinker Collection, Vienna.
(Possibly) Gemälde alter und neuer Meister, Kunstauktion 417, Dorotheun, Vienna, 24-26 November 1932, lot 41.
Private Collection, Düsseldorf, acquired 1930s; thence by descent.
with Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, acquired from the above, 2008 (Kunst der Antike, Katalog 22, no. 212).
Private Collection, Germany, acquired from the above, 2009; thence by descent to the current owner.
Literature
(Possibly) K. Parlasca, Mumienporträts und verwandte Denkmäler, Wiesbaden, 1966, p. 28, n. 84; p. 243, no. 232.
K. Parlasca, Ritratti di mummie, Serie B, vol. III, Rome, 1980, p. 42, no. 577, pl. 139, fig. 2.

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