(Hardback)

A compact edition of this highly acclaimed survey of the Fayum paintings, the enigmatic and compelling funerary portraits created by the inhabitants of Roman Egypt in the first century CE.

The Fayum portraits were created by the people of a flourishing district of Roman Egypt during the first three centuries AD. They placed a painted portrait over the embalmed bodies of their dead to preserve the memory of each individual. This book features over 100 of these ancient paintings.