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Fayum Mummy Portraits usually depict a single person, showing the head, or head and upper chest, viewed frontally. The background is always monochrome, sometimes with decorative elements. In terms of artistic tradition, the images clearly derive more from Graeco-Roman traditions than Egyptian ones. The population of the Fayum area was greatly enhanced by a wave of Greek immigrants during the Ptolemaic period.

Fayum mummy portrait - These very individual portraits arose in the multi-cultural, multi-ethnic society of Roman Egypt. Most are painted in an elaborate encaustic technique [pigments were mixed into beeswax, along with egg, resin, and/or linseed oil]

Egyptian Roman period mummy mask of a young woman, c 150AD

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Head of a daughter of the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Akhenaten (r. ca. 1353-1336 BCE). Now in the Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, Munich. Photo credit: Captmondo/Wikimedia Commons.

Fayum mummy portrait.

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Aline is one of the exceedingly rare cases where we know the name and appearance of a person from antiquity who did not belong to the ruling classes and is not otherwise known from literature. We know

Portrait de femme Epoque romaine: 161-192 Er-Rubayat mod