Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt

ISBN-10
0714119059
ISBN-13
9780714119052
Series
Ancient Faces
Category
Egypt
Pages
224
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
British Museum Press
Authors
Susan Walker, M. L. Bierbrier

Description

The painted panel and shroud portraits of Roman Egypt constitute the only corpus of coloured images of individuals to survive from classical antiquity. Many are of outstanding artistic quality, and as a whole they reflect a range of techniques.

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