Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt: Emerging Research from the APPEAR Project

$65.00 at The Getty Museum.

Edited by Marie Svoboda and Caroline Cartwright Once interred with mummified remains, nearly a thousand funerary portraits from Roman Egypt survive today in museums around the world, bringing viewers face-to-face with people who lived two thousand years ago. Until recently, few of these paintings had undergone in-depth study to determine by whom they were made and how. An international collaboration known as APPEAR (Ancient Panel Paintings: Examination, Analysis, and Research) was launched in 2013 to promote…