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It's hard to believe that a human creature of ANY color, could be so unapologetically stupid.
Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits (also Faiyum mummy portraits) is the modern term for a type of realistic painted portraits on wooden boards attached to mummies from Roman Egypt (funerary mask). They belong to the tradition of panel painting, one of the most highly regarded forms of art in the Classical world. In fact, the Fayum portraits are the only large body of art from that tradition to have survived.
Mummy portraits have been found in all parts of Egypt, but are especially common in the Faiyum Basin, particularly from Hawara and Antinoopolis, hence the common name. "Faiyum Portraits" is generally thought of as a stylistic, rather than a geographic, description. While painted Cartonnage mummy cases date back to pharaonic times, the Faiyum mummy portraits were an innovation dating to the time of the Roman occupation of Egypt.Posts: 22721 | Registered: Oct 2005
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Makes you think this guys ie realy really . . . .really stupid. Doesn't know what the f##G he is posting. Jeeeze!! What a pest!!
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Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits is the modern term given to a type of realistic painted portraits on wooden boards attached to mummies. They belong to the tradition of panel painting, one of the most highly regarded forms of art in the Classical world. In fact, the Fayum portraits are the only large body of art from that tradition to have survived.
Mummy portraits have been found across Egypt, but are most common in the Fayum Basin, hence the common name. "Fayum Portraits" is generally thought of as a stylistic, rather than a geographic, description. The Fayum mummy portraits were an innovation dating to the Coptic period on time of the Roman occupation of Egypt from the late 1st century BC or the early 1st century AD onwards. This highly prestigious tradition of the classical world was continued into Byzantine and Western traditions in the post-classical world, including the local tradition of Coptic iconography in Egypt and then in the famous Slavic (Russian, Bulgarian) icons.
The portraits covered the faces of bodies that were mummified for burial. Extant examples indicate that they were mounted into the bands of cloth that were used to wrap the bodies. Almost all have now been detached from the mummies. They usually depict a single person, showing the head, or head and upper chest, viewed frontally. In terms of artistic tradition, the images clearly derive more from Greco-Roman traditions than Egyptian ones....
Social status
The patrons of the portraits apparently belonged to the affluent upper class of military personnel, civil servants and religious dignitaries. Not everyone could afford a mummy portrait; many mummies were found without one. Flinders Petrie states that only one or two per cent of the mummies he excavated were embellished with portraits...
It is not clear whether those depicted are of Egyptian, Greek or Roman origin, nor whether the portraits were commonly used by all ethnicities. The name of some of those portrayed are known from inscriptions, they are of Egyptian, Greek and Roman origin. Hairstyles and clothing are always influenced by Roman fashion. Women and children are often depicted wearing valuable ornaments and fine garments, men often wearing specific and elaborate outfits. Greek inscriptions of names are relatively common, sometimes they include professions. It is not known whether such inscriptions always reflect reality, or whether they may state ideal conditions or aspirations rather than true conditions. One single inscription is known to definitely indicate the deceased's profession (a ship owner) correctly. The mummy of a woman named Hermione also included the term Grammatik. For a long time, it was assumed that this indicated that she was a teacher by profession (for this reason, Flinders Petrie donated the portrait to Girton College, Cambridge, the first residential college for women in Britain), but today, it is assumed that the term indicates her level of education. Some portraits of men show sword-belts or even pommels, suggesting that they were members of the Roman military.
¡It should be clear to anyone familiar with ancient Egyptian art, or rather yet Egyptian people that most people in these portraits are clearly a mixture of Egyptian and European!
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^ Indeed. The whole argument that the Fayum Portraits are representative of all Egyptians let alone those from dynastic times is one that has been debunked all too many times in this forum. Euronut slayed knows this but his retarded-ass always 'forgets'.
Clearly these are not full-blooded Egyptians but ones mixed with Greeks and Romans.
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quote:Originally posted by Djehuti: ^ Indeed. The whole argument that the Fayum Portraits are representative of all Egyptians let alone those from dynastic times is one that has been debunked all too many times in this forum. Euronut slayed knows this but his retarded-ass always 'forgets'.
Clearly these are not full-blooded Egyptians but ones mixed with Greeks and Romans.
Djehopti, you messed up these two are modern day paintings:
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^ Thanks for the correction. Unlike you I'm not so perfect. Unlike you I just posted pics from google without looking at the source. Oh so unlike you. LOLPosts: 26286 | From: Atlanta, Georgia, USA | Registered: Feb 2005
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