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Mummy portrait of a woman in Encaustic, top left: Detail of the flesh tones, top right: Detail of the flesh tones in raking light, the imprints are from rhombic-shaped, pointed and toothed cauteries, bottom left: Modern reproduction of a rhombic cautery, bottom right: microscope image of the rhombic-shaped imprints in the painting layer of the mummy portrait.

1st half of the 2nd century

Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte

Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte
Munich, Germany

  • Title: Mummy portrait of a woman in Encaustic, top left: Detail of the flesh tones, top right: Detail of the flesh tones in raking light, the imprints are from rhombic-shaped, pointed and toothed cauteries, bottom left: Modern reproduction of a rhombic cautery, bottom right: microscope image of the rhombic-shaped imprints in the painting layer of the mummy portrait.
  • Date Created: 1st half of the 2nd century
  • Location: Würzburg, Martin von Wagner-Museum
  • Medium: Encaustic on wood
  • Photo: top and bottom right: Roberto Bellucci, OPD; bottom left: Luise Sand, Technical University of Munich
  • Inventory number: Inv. H 2197
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte

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