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- catalog abstract "In the first three centuries A.D., in a fertile district of Roman Egypt called the Fayum, a diverse community of Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, Syrians, Libyans, Nubians, and Jews flourished. These people, and many of their contemporaries throughout the Nile Valley, embalmed the bodies of their dead and then placed over the faces portraits painted on wooden panels or linen. These paintings, today known as Fayum, or mummy, portraits, were created to preserve the memory of each individual. The Fayum portraits are by far the most important body of portraiture to have survived antiquity. Reproduced in this arresting book are some 180 of the finest of the more than 1,000 extant images - of men, women, and children, young and old, plain and beautiful - all of whom seem uncannily alive. A few of these faces have become familiar to scholars and museum-goers, but as a whole they have been neglected by art historians and will be new to most readers.".
- catalog contributor b8826220.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "Graeco-Roman Egypt -- The portraits -- The find-sites -- Commentaries on the portraits.".
- catalog description "In the first three centuries A.D., in a fertile district of Roman Egypt called the Fayum, a diverse community of Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, Syrians, Libyans, Nubians, and Jews flourished. These people, and many of their contemporaries throughout the Nile Valley, embalmed the bodies of their dead and then placed over the faces portraits painted on wooden panels or linen. These paintings, today known as Fayum, or mummy, portraits, were created to preserve the memory of each individual. The Fayum portraits are by far the most important body of portraiture to have survived antiquity. Reproduced in this arresting book are some 180 of the finest of the more than 1,000 extant images - of men, women, and children, young and old, plain and beautiful - all of whom seem uncannily alive. A few of these faces have become familiar to scholars and museum-goers, but as a whole they have been neglected by art historians and will be new to most readers.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-243) and index.".
- catalog extent "247 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Mysterious Fayum portraits.".
- catalog identifier "0810933314".
- catalog isFormatOf "Mysterious Fayum portraits.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : H. N. Abrams,".
- catalog relation "Mysterious Fayum portraits.".
- catalog spatial "Egypt.".
- catalog subject "757/.0932 20".
- catalog subject "Mummy portraits Egypt.".
- catalog subject "ND1327.E3 D68 1995".
- catalog subject "Portraits, Roman Egypt.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Graeco-Roman Egypt -- The portraits -- The find-sites -- Commentaries on the portraits.".
- catalog title "The mysterious Fayum portraits : faces from ancient Egypt / Euphrosyne Doxiadis ; foreword by Dorothy J. Thompson.".
- catalog type "text".