Portraits of Fayoum

The portraits of Fayoum are a series of Portrait S found in 1888 by Flinders Petrie in the governorship of the Fayoum in Egypt. They date from the first centuries of our era (), and constitute visual representations of the populations at that time passing by this area.

To the Museum of Louvre, to Paris, portraits of Fayoum are presented within the framework of the department of Egyptian Antiquities, in the rooms of the Roman Egypt, in the Sully wing.

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