The stunning lifelike Fayum mummy portraits of Roman Egypt, 100 BC-200 AD

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Mummy portraits have been found across Egypt, but are most common in the Fayum Basin, particularly from Hawara in the Faiyum Basin and the Hadrianic Roman city Antinoopolis. “Fayum portraits” is generally used as a stylistic, rather than a geographic, description. While painted cartonnage mummy cases date back to pharaonic times. These ancient Egyptian-Roman “death […]