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^A young boy named Eutyches, Roman Egypt

In Roman Egypt (30 BC-AD 324), artists adapted naturalistic painting styles to the ancient custom of making portrait masks for mummies. The portraits were often painted while the subject was in the prime of life and were hung in the home until the person’s death. This practice continued in northern Egypt well into the Early Byzantine period.

^100-110 CE. Her name was Isadora. She was probably from Ankyronopolis, now El Hibeh, Egypt

^Artemidorus the younger, a Greek who had settled in Thebes, 100 CE

^A young woman, 120-150 CE

^1st century CE

^100-120 CE

^An elderly woman with a gold wreath

^Late 1st century CE

(via thatlittleegyptologist)