{"product_id":"mysterious-fayum-portraits-9780810933316","title":"Mysterious Fayum Portraits","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMysterious Fayum Portraits\u003c\/strong\u003e by Doxiadis, Euphrosyne. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780810933316.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first three centuries A.D., in a fertile district of Roman Egypt called the Fayum, a diverse community of Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, Syrians, Libyans, Nubians, and Jews flourished. These people, and many of their contemporaries throughout the Nile Valley, embalmed the bodies of their dead and then placed over the faces portraits painted on wooden panels or linen. These paintings, today known as Fayum, or mummy, portraits, were created to preserve the memory of each individual.\nThe Fayum portraits are by far the most important body of portraiture to have survived antiquity. Reproduced in this arresting book are some 180 of the finest of the more than 1,000 extant images - of men, women, and children, young and old, plain and beautiful - all of whom seem uncannily alive. A few of these faces have become familiar to scholars and museum-goers, but as a whole they have been neglected by art historians and will be new to most readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Abrams Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44662950658101,"sku":"ByrdShop_0810933314","price":250.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0810933314_f28b57ba-2e8c-458f-87f3-41462c455d55.jpg?v=1784484045","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/mysterious-fayum-portraits-9780810933316","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}