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Episode 8: “Rise up to life, for you have not died.” The Faiyum Mummy Portraits: 1st Century B.C. to the 3rd Century A.D.

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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/


                Break Music: 'Egyptian Ambience Loop', provided by Alex Major on https://www.pond5.com (Purchased with license on the 21/12/2024), lasts from 11:20-12:21


                Ending and closing theme, 'Classical Orchestral Dvorak Serenade Waltz Strings Music, provided by mrqwertz on https://www.pond5.com (Purchased with license on the 01/06/2024) 

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