Fayum Male Mummy Portrait is a painting by Ben Morales-Correa which was uploaded on March 10th, 2012.
Fayum Male Mummy Portrait
Original in the Metropolitan Museum 125-50 A.D. ... more
Title
Fayum Male Mummy Portrait
Artist
Ben Morales-Correa
Medium
Painting - Acrylics On Watercolor Paper
Description
Original in the Metropolitan Museum 125-50 A.D.
During the Roman occupation of Egypt, the ruling class adopted many of the ways of Eegyptian culture, just as the Greeks had done during the entire Ptolemaic period. These customs included mummification. The deceased were identified by portraits painted with wax based pigments (encaustic) on thin wooden panels that were attached to the face of the mummy. The original size of this panel is 14 5/8" by 7 7/8". Many of these portrait panels were found in a region presently known as the Fayum, hence the title of Fayumic portraits.
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