The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt

Euphrosyne Doxiadis, Dorothy J. Thompson

Thames and Hudson Ltd

2000

248 páginas

8h 16m

ISBN-13: 9780500282175

The Fayum portraits were created by the people of a flourishing district of Roman Egypt during the first three centuries AD. In the old Egyptian tradition, these people embalmed the bodies of their dead, but then they placed over the mummy, a painted portrait to preserve the memory of each individual. Over 1000 portraits have so far been discovered of men, women and children.