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1. Egyptian Mummy Portraits

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   The Egyptian Mummy Portraits, also known as Fayum mummy portraits, constitute a striking corpus of painted panels attached to mummies from the Greco-Roman period of Egyptian history, primarily spanning from the late Ptolemaic period (c. $150$ BCE) through the Roman period (c. $300$ CE). These artifacts bridge the aesthetic traditions of Hellenistic realism with established [Egypt…

2. Fayum Mummy Portraits

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   The Fayum mummy portraits (also known as Faiyum portraits) are naturalistic panel paintings attached over the faces of mummies from the Greco-Roman period in Egypt, dating roughly from the late Ptolemaic era (c. $150$ BCE) to the Roman era (c. $300$ CE). They represent a unique synthesis of Egyptian funerary practices and contemporary [Mediterranean artistic styles](/entries/mediterranean-artisti…