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Face to face with Roman Egypt: interdisciplinary studies of ancient panel paintings - M. Svoboda, and C. R. Cartwright, eds. 2020. Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt: Emerging Research from the APPEAR Project. Pp. 185. Los Angeles: Getty Publications. ISBN 978-1-6060-6654-6.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2021

Cecilie Brøns
Cecilie Brøns*
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Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
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Journal of Roman Archaeology , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , December 2021 , pp. 823 - 836
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