This mummy portrait (see E.4858) comes from the excavations of B. Grenfell and A. Hunt carried out at Fagg el-Gamous in 1902. It represents a young man wearing a beard and a moustache.
Present location KMKG - MRAH [07/003] BRUSSELS
Inventory number E.4859
Dating HADRIAN
Archaeological Site FAGG EL-GAMUS
Category PORTRAIT
Material WOOD
Technique PAINTED
Height 30 cm
Width 21 cm
Bibliography K. Parlasca, Mumienporträts und verwandte Denkmäler, Wiesbaden 1966, 36 n. 137 et pl. 25, 2 F. Lefebvre et B. Van Rinsveld, L'Égypte. Des Pharaons aux Coptes, Bruxelles 1990, 177 M. Bierbrier, Fayum Cemeteries and their Portraits, in M. Bierbrier (Éd.), Portraits and Masks. Burial Customs in Roman Egypt, Londres 1997, 17 Égypte romaine. L'autre Égypte (Exposition), Marseille 1997, 156 nº 180 Keizers aan de Nijl (Exposition Tongres), Louvain 1999, 209 nº 115 
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