Some more symmetry portrait c0mm$ (left is a recreation of a Fayum mummy portrait, right is a friend's character)

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Today's w/ : Tattoos, piercings & jewellery in the ancient world. The first 3 portraits here are Roman boys (!) only distinguished from girls by their lack of earrings. P.S. surviving ancient earrings def for pierced ears! https://t.co/vJHCMkq0M4

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Reconstruction of Witwatia schlosseri, a new species of very large bat from the Fayum distric of Egypt.

(Credit Bonnie Miljour)

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Merchant of Shield Fayum
Unfettering Vassal Ishtar
Wandering Merchant Otta

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My late Thursday after
Fayum Mummy Portrait from Roman Egypt, painted sometime between 80-100 AD by an unknown artist

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My look at Fayum Mummy Portrait, Roman Egypt, 80-100AD

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My for today's
Original: Fayum Mummy Portrait from Roman Egypt, sometime between 80-100 AD by an unknown artist

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Es espectacular el reflejo blanco del pendiente.

Vermeer no conocía los retratos de El Fayum, pues aún no se habían descubierto. Pero esta es una buena

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Fayum Mummy portrait of a man wearing a beautiful gold wreath of ivy, ca. 2nd Century AD. These portraits really affect me.

Image: Art Institute of Chicago (1922.4798). Link - https://t.co/c1gU43AC5s

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Faces of the Roman world
1) Italians from Pompeii (60 AD)
2) Egyptians from Fayum Mummies (1st cent. BC - 3rd cent. AD)
3) The Christ Pantocrator St. Catherine’s Monastery, one of the oldest depictions of Christ. Can be used as proxy for what a Levantine looked like. (500s AD)

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Marble is porous and stainable, coating of sculptures with untinted wax for protection goes way back. As does encaustic painting; nothing much is preserved from classical easel painting, save for the fayum mummy portraits.

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Reconstruction of Witwatia schlosseri, a new species of very large bat from the Fayum distric of Egypt.

(Credit: Bonnie Miljour)

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Since Hyraxes are very awesome. I present to you yet another extinct Pliohyracid. Meet Antilohyrax, a hyrax from the Late Eocene of Fayum, Egypt. A hyrax that resembled a gazelle, had tusks and a low metabolism for an animal its size. It was a cursorial browser.

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Or Jesus might have had a short 'philosopher's beard' as in this 3rd century AD fresco of Moses and the burning bush from Dura Europa or this 2nd C Fayum portrait.

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Esos Sebecosuchia mediterráneos..."New crocodylomorph material from the Fayum Depression, Egypt, including the first occurrence of a sebecosuchian in African late Eocene deposits" by et al
https://t.co/QJ9Sapz8Vb

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Fayum portrait and matching necklace made of golden bird-shape elements (#Roman Egypt, 3rd century)

https://t.co/MDcek4pcrm
https://t.co/qlzAVtAXix

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Ok, so I digress from all things for a moment - but there can be few things in world art/history of images as stunning and immediate as the encaustic mummy portraits from 1st-3rd century Fayum. Here's four particularly affecting examples...#Fayum

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A I drew from a lot of sources here; Girl With A Pearl Earring, the Fayum Mummies, religious icons, and Mucha!

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