Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to upper class mummies from Roman Egypt...

(Staatliche Museen zu Berlin). Pitsa panels Fayum mummy portraits Altes Museum McCann, Anna Marguerite (1968). "The Portraits of Septimius Severus (A.D. 193-211)"...

preference for cremation. Preserved by the dry desert environment, these Fayum mummy portraits make up the richest body of portraiture to have survived from antiquity...

of layers of linen or papyrus covered with plaster. Some of the Fayum mummy portraits are also painted on panels made of cartonnage. In a technique similar...

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a large number of what are known as Fayum mummy portraits, bust portraits on wood added to the outside of mummies by a Romanized middle class; despite...

and her drapery were reportedly similar to the paintings of the Fayum mummy portraits. A steel engraving published by John Sartain in 1885 depicting the...

the ancient Egyptians. The Roman era Fayum mummy portraits attached to coffins containing the latest dated mummies discovered in the Faiyum Oasis represent...

after the boy's death, and is classified as one of the Fayum mummy portraits. Such mortuary portraits, attached to the burial, were popular as an artistic...