mummy portraits

Identification code: 300033934

Español: retratos de momia | Català: retrat de mòmia

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Objects Facet
Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
Visual Works (hierarchy name)
visual works (works)
[visual works by material or technique]
paintings (visual works)
[paintings by location or context]

Related term/s

mummy masks

Alternative term/s

Faiyum portraits
Fayum portraits
Fayuum portraits
Fayyum portraits
mummy portrait
portraits, Faiyum
portraits, Fayum
portraits, mummy

Anotations

Scope note:

Full-face portrait paintings placed on Egyptian mummies of the Roman period (2nd and 3rd centuries CE), most coming from Faiyum; usually in encaustic paint on panel.

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