Faiyum Portrait of a Roman Citizen, 2nd century A.D, Roman Egypt Norton Simon Museum

ancient egyptian faiyum portrait, c. 117-161 a.d.

Hello! If you are interested in Egyptology and the Fayum “mummy portraits,” do I have the virtual event for you! This event is on Zoom and completely free. 

Face to Face: Conservation Research on 'Mummy Portraits' in the Detroit Area

February 28th at 6:30 PM Virtual event on Zoom

Join us for an evening of conversation with conservators Caroline Roberts and Ellen Hanspach-Bernal who will be sharing their research on Egyptian "mummy" panel portraits at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the Detroit Institute of Arts.

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Speaker Profiles: Caroline Roberts Talk title: Reengaging with Roman Egyptian portraits and panel paintings through technical research at the Kelsey Museum Bio: Caroline Roberts is an archaeological conservator and a graduate of the Winterthur / University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. Carrie’s professional background includes post-graduate fellowships at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her research interests include the conservation of stone artifacts and architecture in museum and field settings, the characterization of ancient polychromy, and preventive conservation. Carrie’s conservation fieldwork experience includes seasons at Kaman-Kalehöyük in Turkey, Selinunte in Sicily, El-Kurru in Sudan, and Abydos in Egypt. She is a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation.

Ellen Hanspach-Bernal Talk title: Deconstructing an Ancient Egyptian Mummy Portrait at the Detroit Institute of Arts Bio: Ellen Hanspach-Bernal is a 2006 graduate of the art conservation program at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden. From 2006 to 2009 she was the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in painting conservation at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas. She has worked for Klassik Stiftung Weimar and for the Conservation Centre for the Museums of the City of Erfurt, Thüringen, in Germany. In 2015 she returned to the United States to work as Conservator of Paintings at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Image credit: 25.2, Egyptian, Head of a Woman at the Detroit Institute of Arts

In a rare find in Faiyum, Egypt (the ancient Philadelphia Necropolis), Dr. Basem Gehad & his team unearthed an untouched burial chamber belonging to a Greek child. This showed that after the Greeks invaded Egypt in 332 BCE, they had begun to adopt the ancient Egyptian practice of mummification and burial rituals. The outside of the coffin was decorated in Greek styling. But inside, along with the mummified body of a female child was a terra cotta statue of a Greek goddess.

This is a clear indication of how the two cultures got along. "It is an influence between the Egyptian mindset and the Greek myth and mindset", stated Dr. Gehad.

Source: (Taken from Series 3, Episode 5, "Lost Treasures of Egypt" by National Geographic (2019).

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Faiyum Bronzeclaw, younger sister of Rita Bronzeclaw is a half hyena half cat beast person. While the idea of overthrowing the current monarchy of Silva to abolish the cruel segregation of the hyena people within the land sounded good on paper, it started to fall appart when she found out the current loyal family was already in the work of doing this after she played a key role in destroying said family as she helped the assassination of the previous queen with a arrow right between her eyes falling off a balcony high up from the castle. She was then tasked, under the alias 'Florence' to seduce the current king and earn his hand in marriage to become a part of said family. Which she did but not to the benefit of her master. She genuinely fell in love with him and burdened by the guilt of his wife's murder she did everything she could to help his mental health while growing a strong bond with his traumatized daughter Clementine. When the time came to assassinate him and she refused, she woke up on faithful morning with the king pale dead right next to her in bed with a clear warning that the daughter would be next if she doesn't comply.

Faiyum now serves as the puppet of her master, a demonic entity, to rule over Silva in cruelty against her will under the threat that if she doesn't do as requested, far worse will happen to those poor people (as well as her loved ones). Her visible depression and doing the bare minimum to comply had Rita see this as ungratefulness and she grew insanely jealous of her to a point where she adopted Amy simply to have a bound with a daughter like she did. She is now assisted by a new lover, the rogue mage Willfred, to find ways to secrety help the rebellion in exposing the true evil controlling her, free herself, her family and the kingdom from becomming but an asset to her dark master. 

-------------------------- This is a character that had been made a long time ago but with how uncertain i will even get to introduce her in Silva despite how important her role is (because of my attention being much bigger on other projects) i have been in the mood to update her design and i figured i might as well just show her to the world. She has for a long time been one of my personnal favorite design and i loved to play a tragic twist on the evil queen trope.

Favorite art movement?

Oooh, well we don't know how old this movement is, but Faiyum portraits are just so close to my heart

Most of the ones we've found intact have been from when the Romans were occupying Egypt. So they're around 2000 years old.

The style between Faiyum portraits and 2nd century BC mosaics isn't that different though, the way they treat light is just too similar. So it's reasonable to say, Faiyum portraits are the closest we've gotten to seeing ancient paintings from Eastern Mediterranean cultures. And the techniques with the wax and the animal glue? It's just fascinating to me

Wig rings of Sithathoryunet, on a modern wig - Met Museum Collection

Inventory Number: 16.1.25–.26-related Middle Kingdom ca. 1887–1813 B.C. Dynasty 12 Location Information: Fayum Entrance Area, Lahun, Tomb of Sithathoryunet (BSA Tomb 8), BSAE excavations 1914

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Two boxes in the jewelry niche of Sithathoryunet's tomb seem to have held her ceremonial wigs. The wooden boxes and hair had completely decomposed, but 1,251 gold rings in two sizes that had decorated one of the wigs were preserved. They have been placed on a modern wig in an arrangement suggested by a wooden head that the Metropolitan Museum excavated at Lisht, another Middle Kingdom royal cemetery. A gold crown and a pectoral with the name of Amenemhat III, both in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, were packed in the same box with the ornamented wig.

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Département des Antiquités égyptiennes, Musée du Louvre Upper class mummy from Roman Egypt

Limewood panel depicting a young man Hawara, Medinet al-Faiyum, Egypt. c. 80-120 A.D. British Museum. EA74711

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I swear to God though I will murder Hollywood solely for the part it played in making people think Egypt was mostly sand and barren desert villages, instead of literally a very lush, very green, river valley and river delta. You know, because the whole reason ancient Egypt was as successful as it was, is the fucking Nile