Ancient Faces

Mummy Portraits in Roman Egypt

By: Susan Walker (Editor)

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Paperback | 24 February 2000 | Edition Number 1

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From the first major discoveries a century ago, the painted portraits of Roman Egypt were a revelation to scholars and the public alike, and the recent finding of a new cache of these gilded images, which made national headlines, have only heightened their mystery and appeal. Published to coincide with a new major exhibition of these portraits, Ancient Faces is the most comprehensive, up-to-date survey of these astonishing works of art.

Dating from the later period of Roman rule in Egypt, shortly before the birth of Christ, the painted mummy portraits are among the most remarkable products of the ancient world, a fusion of the traditions of pharonic Egypt and the Classical world. They are historical and cultural objects of outstanding importance and beauty, superb works of art that represent some of the earliest known examples of life-like portraiture. Though the subjects of the portraits believed in the traditional Egyptian cults, which offered them a firm prospect of life after death, they also wished to be commemorated in the Roman manner, with their fashion of dress and adornment signaling their status in life. Despite their ancient history, these portraits speak to the modern eye with a beauty and intensity that would be lost to portraiture until the Renaissance.

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Acknowledgements	p. 6
Director's Foreword	p. 7
Map	p. 8
Before the Portraits: Burial Practices in Pharaonic Egypt	p. 9
Graeco-Roman Portraiture	p. 14
Mummy Portraits and Roman Portraiture	p. 23
The Fayum and its People	p. 26
Technique	p. 30
The Discovery of the Mummy Portraits	p. 32
A Note on the Dating of Mummy Portraits	p. 34
Portraits and Mummies from Hawara	p. 38
Gilded Masks from Hawara	p. 66
Portraits from er-Rubayat (Philadelphia)	p. 69
Portraits from Antinoopolis and other Sites	p. 88
Portraits of Technical Interest	p. 120
Pagan Icons	p. 124
Portraits on Painted Plaster Masks	p. 128
Stone Funerary Stelae	p. 141
Portraits of the Later Third Century A.D. from Dier el-Bahri and Antinoopolis	p. 145
The Cultural and Archaeological Context	p. 149
Select Bibliography	p. 161
Glossary	p. 163
Egyptian Deities and Chronology	p. 164
Lenders to the Exhibition and Photographic Acknowledgements	p. 165
Concordance of Catalogue and Museum Numbers	p. 166
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