right: Gas chromatograms of fresh beeswax (top) and a mummy portrait (bottom), top left: beeswax, bottom left: Mummy portrait of a boy in Cold Wax Painting (Würzburg, Martin von Wagner-Museum, Inv. H2196)

right and top left: 2017; bottom left: 2nd century

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Title: right: Gas chromatograms of fresh beeswax (top) and a mummy portrait (bottom), top left: beeswax, bottom left: Mummy portrait of a boy in Cold Wax Painting (Würzburg, Martin von Wagner-Museum, Inv. H2196)
Date Created: right and top left: 2017; bottom left: 2nd century
Location: Munich
Photo: Gas chromatograms: Bayerische Staatsgemäldessammlungen – Doerner Institute, Munich; Foto top left: Luise Sand, Technical University of Munich; Foto bottom left: Roberto Bellucci, Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence

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