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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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Autores principales: Nerlich, Andreas G., Fischer, Lukas, Panzer, Stephanie, Bicker, Roxane, Helmberger, Thomas, Schoske, Sylvia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7494087/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32936816
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238427