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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Roman Imperial Portraits Dataset (Ripd)
Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2022 Portraits of the Roman emperors have been a focal point in the study of the ancient world. However, questions on how this medium developed over time and/or how perceptions of the emperor changed over more than four centuries of imperial rule, are constrained by the availability and accessibility of the material.
Sam Heijnen
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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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Ideal Beauty and Adornment: A Roman Portrait of a Young Woman
Eugesta, 2020 The article focuses on a Roman portrait of a young woman in the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the early second century C.E. The marble head, though striking for its beauty and high quality of craftsmanship, cannot be identified.
Eve d’Ambra
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Dynamic molecular portraits of ion-conducting pores characterize functional states of TRPV channels [PDF]
Communications ChemistryStructural biology is solving an ever-increasing number of snapshots of ion channel conformational ensembles. Deciphering ion channel mechanisms, however, requires understanding the ensemble dynamics beyond the static structures.
Yury A. Trofimov +6 more
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Recent approaches to the study of Roman portraits
Perspective, 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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