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SUBMITTER: Nerlich AG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7494087 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nerlich Andreas G AG Fischer Lukas L Panzer Stephanie S Bicker Roxane R Helmberger Thomas T Schoske Sylvia S
PloS one 20200916 9
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 present study, we investigated a completely wrapped young infant mummy with a typical mummy portrait by whole body CT analysis. This was used to obtain physical information on the infant and provided th ...[more]