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Mummy portrait

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The Fayum Portraits: Funerary Painting of Roman Egypt, 1988 | From the Vaults

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Timeless, 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy portraits analyzed by painter Y.Z. Kami | The Artist Project

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Painting Roman period mummy portraits

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The Mummy Portraits of Fayum : Painting the Dead

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Fayum Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt

Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to upper class mummies from Roman Egypt. They belong to the tradition of panel painting, one of the most highly regarded forms of art in the Classical world. The Fayum portraits are the only large body of art from that tradition to have survived. They were formerly, and incorrectly, called Coptic portraits.