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their subject. Aline's portrait is painted directly on the end of the mummy wrapping and appears to have been produced after death, perhaps based on a previously prepared portrait. Like other mummy portraits, the painting appears three-dimensional and is front-facing, features of Graeco-Roman influences on
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In contrast to the painted portraits, the paper masks were less concerned with depicting individuals. The mask of the male mummy is gilded. The find of the masks and portraits in the tomb shows that both forms of treating the dead did not only coexist at the same time, but could indeed be used by the
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The three mummies with painted portraits lay at the bottom; they were those of the woman Aline and of two female children. The two masked mummies lay at right angles on top of them; they were those of a man and of a somewhat older girl. The two undecorated mummies, in turn, lay on top, again at right
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The two mummies of the younger girls have not been unwrapped. In the early 1990s they were examined with modern techniques for the time. Since the portrait of the older girl is still attached to her mummy, it is less clearly visible at present; additionally, it has been attached somewhat too far to
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on linen, as were those of the two girls. It has a height of 40 cm and a width 32.5 cm. Below the painted cloth, scraps of linen pressed onto the mummy's face were used to provide an even surface, so that the portrait is nearly flat. Some of the portraits were painted before the death of
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Panzer, Stephanie; Treitl, Marcus; Zesch, Stephanie; Rosendahl, Wilfried; Helmbold-Doyé, Jana; Thompson, Randall C.; Zink, Albert R. (1 March 2022). "Radiological evidence of purulent infections in ancient
Egyptian child mummies".
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the right of the window-like opening in the wrapping. As with the other children and the man, her name is unknown. She wears valuable but simple jewellery and has a ringlet hairstyle. Her mummy was
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be similarly attributed. The separation of the date in the inscription in two parts, resulting from the insertion of Aline's age in the middle, is unusual. Since it was common in
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