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Ancient faces : mummy portraits from Roman Egypt /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: Walker, Susan, 1948- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Routledge, 2000.
Subjects:
Mummy portraits > Egypt > Exhibitions.
Portraits, Egyptian > Exhibitions.
Portraits, Roman > Egypt > Exhibitions.
Egypt > Antiquities, Roman > Exhibitions.
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient > Egypt > Exhibitions.
Portraits du Fayoum > Expositions.
Portraits égyptiens > Expositions.
Portraits romains > Égypte > Expositions.
Funérailles > Rites et cérémonies > Histoire > Jusqu'à 500 > Égypte > Expositions.
HISTORY > General.
Classical antiquities.
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient.
Mummy portraits.
Portraits, Egyptian.
Portraits, Roman.
Romans.
Egypt.
Mumienbildnis
Ägypten > Altertum
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements (starting p. 6)
  • Director's Foreword (starting p. 7)
  • Map (starting p. 8)
  • Before the Portraits: Burial Practices in Pharaonic Egypt (starting p. 9) / John Taylor
  • Graeco-Roman Portraiture (starting p. 14) / Kurt Gschwantler
  • Mummy Portraits and Roman Portraiture (starting p. 23) / Susan Walker
  • The Fayum and its People (starting p. 26) / R.S. Bagnall
  • Technique (starting p. 30) / Euphrosyne C. Doxiadis
  • The Discovery of the Mummy Portraits (starting p. 32) / Morris Bierbrier
  • A Note on the Dating of Mummy Portraits (starting p. 34) / Susan Walker
  • Portraits and Mummies from Hawara (starting p. 38)
  • Gilded Masks from Hawara (starting p. 66)
  • Portraits from er-Rubayat (Philadelphia) (starting p. 69)
  • Portraits from Antinoopolis and other Sites (starting p. 88)
  • Portraits of Technical Interest (starting p. 120)
  • Pagan Icons (starting p. 124)
  • Portraits on Painted Plaster Masks (starting p. 128)
  • Stone Funerary Stelae (starting p. 141)
  • Portraits of the Later Third Century A.D. from Dier el-Bahri and Antinoopolis (starting p. 145)
  • The Cultural and Archaeological Context (starting p. 149)
  • Select Bibliography (starting p. 161)
  • Glossary (starting p. 163)
  • Egyptian Deities and Chronology (starting p. 164)
  • Lenders to the Exhibition and Photographic Acknowledgements (starting p. 165)
  • Concordance of Catalogue and Museum Numbers (starting p. 166)