The Fayum mummy portraits were lifelike images painted on thin wooden panels and placed directly over the mummy in Roman Egypt. The vast majority of them date to the 1st and 2nd centuries CE. Hundreds of mummy portraits have been excavated, and the largest collection outside Egypt is housed in the Petrie Museum in London.
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Mummy Portrait of Lady Aline
Mummy portrait of Lady Aline, from Hawara, Egypt, c. 24 CE.
Neues Museum, Berlin.
The Tomb of Aline is an ancient Egyptian grave from the time of Roman emperor Tiberius (r. 14-37 CE), excavated at Hawara in 1892. The portrait is painted directly onto the canvas of the mummy wrapping.
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