Multi-Analytical Characterization and Radiocarbon Dating of a Roman Egyptian Mummy Portrait [PDF]
Molecules, 2021 Fayum mummy portraits, painted around 2000 years ago, represent a fascinating fusion of Egyptian and Graeco-Roman funerary and artistic traditions. Examination of these artworks may provide insight into the Roman Empire’s trade and economic and social ...
Alice Dal Fovo +5 more
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Three hundred years of Palmyrene history. Unlocking archaeological data for studying past societal transformations. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 While archaeological sciences have made great advances over the last decades through combining archaeological evidence and natural sciences in order to push borders for the understanding of archaeological contexts, traditional archaeology still holds an ...
Rubina Raja +2 more
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Forensic examination of a fragmentary funerary portrait in the collection of the Harvard art museums [PDF]
Forensic Science International: Synergy, 2023 The Harvard Art Museums’ collection includes six Egyptian funerary portraits of the Roman period. These portraits are all that remains of the funerary equipment of individuals whose bodies were carefully prepared for burial and the afterlife. One example,
Georgina Rayner +5 more
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The infant mummy’s face—Paleoradiological investigation and comparison between facial reconstruction and mummy portrait of a Roman-period Egyptian child [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 In Graeco-Roman times in the Lower-Egyptian Fayoum region, a painted portrait was traditionally placed over the face of a deceased individual. These mummy portraits show considerable inter-individual diversity.
Andreas G. Nerlich +6 more
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91. Roman Portraits in Egypt. [PDF]
Man; A Monthly Record of Anthropological Science, 1911 n ...
W M Flinders Petrie
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Recent approaches to the study of Roman portraits
Perspective (France), 2012 Barbara E. Borg
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Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Diseases through the Lens of Roman Sculpture
Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal, 2021 Roman sculpture has often given the impression that it provides such a precise simulacrum of the bodies of ancient Romans that their portraits can be studied autoptically as if they were a patient.
Salvatore Fadda
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Secular and Sacred in Late Roman Portraits
Mythos, 2021 This article analyses the ways in which portraits were associated with religious and sacred ideas and concepts in late antique Rome. Rather than straightforward, the identification of a visual representation of an individual as sacred was subject to ...
Carlos Machado
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Facial recognition as a tool to identify Roman emperors: towards a new methodology
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022 Portraits of Roman emperors are traditionally recognised by their unique coiffure patterns, a method that runs the risk of ignoring portraits that do not cohere to the standardised image of the emperor. This article investigates whether it is possible to
Darshan Srirangachar Ramesh +4 more
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Acta Historiae Artis Slovenica, 2021 The paper discusses the emblematic congratulatory writings and family trees which Dominik Franz Calin von Marien- berg (1624–1683) created for Emperor Leopold I.
Polona Vidmar
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