They were formerly, and incorrectly, called Coptic portraits. The Fayum portraits are the only large body of art from that tradition to have survived. They belong to the tradition of panel painting, one of the most highly regarded forms of art in the Classical world. Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to upper class mummies from Roman Egypt. This heavily gilt portrait was found in Antinoöpolis in winter 1905/06 by French Archaeologist Alfred Gayet and sold to the Egyptian Museum of Berlin in 1907. ![]() ![]() Mummy portrait of a young woman, Antinoöpolis, Middle Egypt, 2nd century, Louvre, Paris. Portraits attached to mummies in Roman Egypt
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