Faiyum Portraits

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf ancient artwork
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Fayum_mummy_portraits
gptkbp:category gptkb:artifacts
gptkb:Gothic_architecture
portrait painting
Egyptian art
gptkbp:currentLocation gptkb:British_Museum
gptkb:Louvre_Museum
gptkb:Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art
gptkb:Egyptian_Museum_(Cairo)
gptkbp:date 1st century BCE
3rd century CE
gptkbp:depicts Greco-Roman Egyptians
mummified individuals
gptkbp:discoveredBy gptkb:Flinders_Petrie
gptkbp:foundIn gptkb:Antinoopolis
gptkb:Hawara
gptkb:Er-Rubayat
Faiyum Basin
gptkbp:function funerary portrait
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Faiyum Portraits
gptkbp:influencedBy Hellenistic art
Egyptian funerary traditions
gptkbp:inscriptionLanguage gptkb:Greek
gptkb:Demotic
Coptic
gptkbp:material wooden panels
gptkbp:medium tempera
encaustic paint
gptkbp:notableExample gptkb:Portrait_of_Eutyches
Portrait of a bearded man from Er-Rubayat
Portrait of a young woman from Hawara
gptkbp:period gptkb:Roman_Egypt
gptkbp:preserves dry climate of Egypt
gptkbp:significance earliest examples of panel painting
insight into Roman-era Egyptian society
gptkbp:style naturalistic
realistic
gptkbp:subject individualized faces
upper-class citizens
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Fayoum,_Egypt
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6