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#Historical
Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits
are a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to upper-class mummies from Roman Egypt.
They belong to the tradition of panel painting, one of the most highly regarded forms of art in the Classical world.
The Fayum portraits are the only large body of art from that tradition to have survived. They were formerly, and incorrectly, called Coptic portraits.
Mummy portraits have been found across Egypt, but are most common in the Faiyum Basin, particularly from Hawara in the Fayum Basin and the Hadrianic Roman city Antinoopolis.
"Faiyum Portraits" is generally used 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 Roman rule in Egypt.
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