Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to upper class mummies from Roman Egypt...

ancient Egyptians as Shedet, its current name in English is also spelled as Fayum, Faiyum or al-Faiyūm. Faiyum was also previously officially named Madīnat...

their religious use of ancestor portraits, as well as Roman politics. Again, the few painted survivals, in the Fayum portraits, Tomb of Aline and the Severan...

in London. In 1995, she published a book on the Fayum portraits, titled The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt. The book received widespread...

oldest surviving encaustic panel paintings are the Romano-Egyptian Fayum mummy portraits from Egypt, around 100–300 AD, but it was a very common technique...

the world. Bahr Yussef canal Faiyum Faiyum Governorate Farafra Fayum mummy portraits Lake Moeris Monastery of the Archangel Gabriel at Naqlun Pedestals...

stylistic connections to Fayum Mummy portraiture including materials and artistic elements, and its production has been located in the Fayum district of Egypt...

widespread.: 78  Several examples, significant for their early date, are Fayum portraits from the second century CE. Over eighty Dutch paintings dating from...

Ryabushinsky Museum of Icons and Paintings with ap. 2,000 items starting from Fayum portrait and icons ranging from the fifteenth through twentieth centuries, covering...

the creation of a detailed portrait of the deceased's face. The most notable collection of these images is the Fayum portraits.: 298–299  Alexandria and...