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The Fayoum Portraits
At the beginning of the first century A.D., it became customary to insert a portrait of the deceased into a mummy’s bandages above his or her face.

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The portraits were executed on panels of sycamore, cedar, pine, or acacia wood. Most of the panels are rectangular and are approximately 40cm high and 20cm wide. They were painted using the encaustic technique

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Archival photos from the discovery of a statue of Seneb, his family and the false door of his tomb, currently on display at the Egyptian Museum, from the Archives of the Harvard University Giza Project

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