The story of the Faiyum Mummy Portraits, among the oldest surviving paintings of individuals in History.

Episode Icon: Fayum portrait of a man, mid-2nd century, Myers Collection, Eton College, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain.

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Recommended further reading…

• Doxiadis, Euphrosyne, 'The Mysterious Fayum Portraits, Faces from Ancient Egypt', (London, New York, 1995, 2024)

• Paterson, Andrew, 'Late Antique Portraits and Early Christian Icons, The Power of the Painted Gaze', (New York, Oxford, 2022)

• Price, Campbell, 'Golden Mummies of Egypt, Interpreting Identities from the Graeco-Roman Period', (Manchester, 2023)

• Picton, Janet, Quirke, Stephen, Roberts, Paul C. (eds.), 'Living Images, Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum', (Walnut Creek, California, 2007)

• Roberts, Paul, 'Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt, (London, 2008)

• Svoboda, Marie, Cartwright, Caroline R. (eds.), 'Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt, Emerging Research from the APPEAR Project', (Los Angeles, 2020)

• Walker, Susan (ed.), 'Ancient Faces, Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt', (London, New York, 1997, 2000)

APPEAR Project: https://www.getty.edu/projects/appear-project/

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