Ancient Faces
Subtitle: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: February 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780870999307
Subjects: Egypt; Techniques - Painting; Exhibitions; Mummy portraits; Portraits, Egyptian; Portraits, Roman; Art
First sentence: The mummy portraits of Roman Egypt were the product of a fusion of two traditions, that of pharaonic Egypt and that of the Classical world.