| #841324 in Books | 2000-07-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 12.60 x.94 x9.57l,3.53 | File type: PDF | 248 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Pricey but worth it|By M A Schultz|The color portraits that bring to life people who walked the earth a couple of thousand years ago are what this book is all about. They are amazing. I was surprised at how modern in technique some of the portraits appeared. The ones with notes written to or about the deceased person made it that much easier to believe that these images were on|.com |The Fayum, a flourishing metropolitan community in ancient Egypt, consisted of Greeks, Egyptians, Syrians, Libyans, and others. Like many of their contemporaries throughout the Nile Valley, these people embalmed their dead and then painted commemorative p
The Fayum portraits were created by the people of a flourishing district of Roman Egypt during the first three centuries AD. In the old Egyptian tradition, these people embalmed the bodies of their dead, but then they placed over the mummy, a painted portrait to preserve the memory of each individual. Over 1000 portraits have so far been discovered of men, women and children. This book features over 100 of these ancient paintings. The explanatory text sets the people and...
You easily download any file type for your device.Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces fro | Euphrosyne Doxiadis. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
