Portraits and Masks

Burial Customs in Roman Egypt

• Author(s): M. L. Bierbrier,
• Publisher: Trustees of the British Museum
• Pages: 130
• ISBN_10: 0714119040
  ISBN_13: 9780714119045
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / Sculpture & Installation , Art / Subjects & Themes / Portraits , Health & Fitness / Beauty & Grooming , Social Science / Archaeology , Social Science / Customs & Traditions , Social Science / Death & Dying ,

Description:... In July 1995 the Department of Egyptian Antiquities, British Museum, London, organized a major colloquium on burial customs in Roman Egypt with particular emphasis on the use of life-like mummy portraits.