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
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