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Portrait of a youth in a gold wreath, Fayum mummy portrait, Romano-Egyptian, early 2nd century. Such portraits were apparently kept at home during the subject's lifetime and added on his death to his mummified corpse. They are often known as Fayum portraits after the place in Egypt where many of them were found. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.