Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to upper class mummies from Roman Egypt...
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Severan Tondo (category Portraits of ancient Greece and Rome)
(Staatliche Museen zu Berlin). Pitsa panels Fayum mummy portraits Altes Museum McCann, Anna Marguerite (1968). "The Portraits of Septimius Severus (A.D. 193-211)"...
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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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Cleopatra (section Coinage portraits)
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...
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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...
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the ancient Egyptians. The Roman era Fayum mummy portraits attached to coffins containing the latest dated mummies discovered in the Faiyum Oasis represent...
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Faiyum Oasis (redirect from Fayum Depression)
Origins game. Bahr Yussef canal Faiyum Faiyum Governorate Farafra Fayum mummy portraits Lake Moeris Monastery of the Archangel Gabriel at Naqlun Pedestals...
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surviving examples of painted portraits from classical antiquity, the "Fayum" mummy portraits from Roman Egypt. Among the discoveries made by Petrie were papyrus...
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