“Mummy Portraits” of Roman Egypt: Status, Ethnicity, and Magic

Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street Cambridge MA 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

In ancient Egypt, one of the final steps in the mummification process was to equip the body with a permanent face covering that helped protect the head and also ritually transform the deceased into a god. The earliest examples of these were stylized masks, later replaced by more realistically rendered painted portraits. Using evidence from […]

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