Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman EgyptTrustees of the British Museum, 1997 - 224 pages The painted panel and shroud portraits of Roman Egypt constitute the only corpus of coloured images of individuals to survive from classical antiquity. Many are of outstanding artistic quality, and as a whole they reflect a range of techniques. |
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Acknowledgements | 6 |
Preface | 125 |
Burial Practices | 149 |
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