The image is a photograph of a plaque on a wall in a museum. The plaque is titled "Mummy Portraits" and is written in German. The text on the plaque reads "In Roman Egypt from the 1st to the 3rd century AD, portraits painted onto wood were placed over the deceased person's head and chest and then integrated into the mummy bandages. Most of these are made in a technique called encaustic, using warm, coloured wax, and then delivered an impression of the lost Roman art of panel painting. Even though the portraits appear very individualistic, they are constructed using phyto-iognomic formulas. For the most likely, they show children, young men and women, and the physicality of the human body. The physicality is based on the ethnically heterogeneous society in Hel-lensed Egypt. Hairstyles and jewellery largely follow contemporary fashion, however, specifically Roman elements such as boy portraits as an Egyptian attribute, which is connected to the high social rank of those who depicted.