Fayum Portait, Ancient Egyptian, Roman
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Fayum Portait, Ancient Egyptian, Roman
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Print Collector
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Drawing - Illustration
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Fayum portait, Ancient Egyptian, Roman period, c200 AD (1956). Such portraits were apparently kept at home during the subject's lifetime and added to their mummified corpse after death. They are often known as Fayum portraits after the place where many of them were found. A print from Things, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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