The infant mummy’s face—Paleoradiological investigation and comparison between facial reconstruction and mummy portrait of a Roman-period Egyptian child
In Graeco-Roman times in the Lower-Egyptian Fayoum region, a painted portrait was traditionally placed over the face of a deceased individual. These mummy portraits show considerable inter-individual diversity. This suggests that those portraits were created separately for each individual. In the pr...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2020-01-01
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7494087/?tool=EBI |
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by Andreas G Nerlich, Lukas Fischer, Stephanie Panzer, Roxane Bicker, Thomas Helmberger, Sylvia Schoske
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