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.
13 1⁄8 in. (33.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Said to be from er-Rubayat.
Theodor Graf (1840-1903), Vienna.
Flinker Collection, Vienna.
Gemälde alter und neuer Meister, Kunstauktion 417, Dorotheum, Vienna, 24-26 November 1932, lot 47.
Private Collection, Düsseldorf, acquired 1930s; thence by descent.
with Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, acquired from the above, 2008.
Private Collection, Germany, acquired from the above, 2008; thence by descent to the current owner.
Literature
K. Parlasca, Mumienporträts und verwandte Denkmäler, Wiesbaden, 1966, p. 28, n. 84; p. 243, no. 232.
K. Parlasca and H.G. Frenz, Ritratti di mummie, Serie B, vol. IV, Rome, 1977, p. 69, no. 799; pl. 177, fig. 2.

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