Mummy Portraits
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This type of portrait appeared in Egypt in the first century AD, and remained popular for around 200 years. Though the subjects believed in the traditional Egyptian cults, which offered them a firm prospect of life after death, they also wished tobe commemorated in the Roman manner. Portraits were commissioned that would serve as a realistic record of the deceased as he or she had appeared in life. These were painted on a wooden board at a roughly lifelike scale, which was then placed on the outside of the cartonnage coffin over the head of the individual or carefully placed into the mummy wrappings.
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Product code: cmc50703
Exhibition: Hadrian
Price category: Under £10
Author: Paul Roberts
ISBN: 9780714150703
Number of pages: 96
Size: 185x150mm
llustrations: 45 colour
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