Sarebbe interessante vedere la mostra coi ritratti di El Fayyum che faranno a Roma.
October 6, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Sarebbe interessante vedere la mostra coi ritratti di El Fayyum che faranno a Roma.
Looks just like Egyptian burial portraits from El Fayyum.
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/hist...
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/hist...
May 3, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Looks just like Egyptian burial portraits from El Fayyum.
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/hist...
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/hist...
Here's an interesting map of Fayyum, an irrigated region of the Nile Delta southwest of Cairo. The peasantry is now organized in segmentary terms, having adopted the names of storied Arab tribes, in ways that map onto the hydrology of the depression and facilitate cooperation:
May 22, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Here's an interesting map of Fayyum, an irrigated region of the Nile Delta southwest of Cairo. The peasantry is now organized in segmentary terms, having adopted the names of storied Arab tribes, in ways that map onto the hydrology of the depression and facilitate cooperation:
Please, please, before you take any of that "we now have Anne Boleyn's real face or maybe it's her mom's" stuff seriously, go read Sonja Drimmer
And before you put that Fayyum portrait on your book/syllabus/conference poster, read this from me:
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And before you put that Fayyum portrait on your book/syllabus/conference poster, read this from me:
share.google/QjhSqk6JO399...
Faces in the Crowds: The So-Called Fayyum Portraits and the Aftereffects of Photography | University of California Press
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May 19, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Please, please, before you take any of that "we now have Anne Boleyn's real face or maybe it's her mom's" stuff seriously, go read Sonja Drimmer
And before you put that Fayyum portrait on your book/syllabus/conference poster, read this from me:
share.google/QjhSqk6JO399...
And before you put that Fayyum portrait on your book/syllabus/conference poster, read this from me:
share.google/QjhSqk6JO399...
In a recent book, I argued that the Fayyum portraits are not ancient, but modern objects, created in the 19th century as wonder-machines
I love seeing them at work in the wild
I love seeing them at work in the wild
Fayum Mummy Portraits
They come from Roman Egypt, mostly dating from the 1st to 3rd centuries CE.
Painted on wooden panels, many were placed over the faces of mummified bodies, giving the dead an astonishingly life like presence.
#History #HistoryMatters
They come from Roman Egypt, mostly dating from the 1st to 3rd centuries CE.
Painted on wooden panels, many were placed over the faces of mummified bodies, giving the dead an astonishingly life like presence.
#History #HistoryMatters
June 8, 2026 at 1:57 PM
In a recent book, I argued that the Fayyum portraits are not ancient, but modern objects, created in the 19th century as wonder-machines
I love seeing them at work in the wild
I love seeing them at work in the wild
lol I forgot I put this last part in the alt text
August 2, 2026 at 7:13 PM
lol I forgot I put this last part in the alt text
Is that a Fayyum Mummy portrait?
November 12, 2024 at 10:38 AM
Is that a Fayyum Mummy portrait?
*Seems legit
*The carpenter from Nazareth looks quite Fayyum-Mummy-Portrait, and since they were His neighbors in His own day, why wouldn't He look like them
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayum_m...
*The carpenter from Nazareth looks quite Fayyum-Mummy-Portrait, and since they were His neighbors in His own day, why wouldn't He look like them
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayum_m...
January 7, 2026 at 7:08 PM
*Seems legit
*The carpenter from Nazareth looks quite Fayyum-Mummy-Portrait, and since they were His neighbors in His own day, why wouldn't He look like them
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayum_m...
*The carpenter from Nazareth looks quite Fayyum-Mummy-Portrait, and since they were His neighbors in His own day, why wouldn't He look like them
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayum_m...
It's also indicative to look at those Christians who remained. Al-Nabulusi counts some 1,142 men in Fayyum still paying the poll tax (ie. Christian) out of a total population of 75,000. Yet these men and their families were almost exclusively concentrated in cities and market towns...
May 22, 2026 at 11:27 AM
It's also indicative to look at those Christians who remained. Al-Nabulusi counts some 1,142 men in Fayyum still paying the poll tax (ie. Christian) out of a total population of 75,000. Yet these men and their families were almost exclusively concentrated in cities and market towns...
The Royal Ontario Museum added thousands of objects to their only museum catalogue last year—which now totals almost 90,000 objects. My favorite remains this late antique child’s sock from Roman Egypt. 🧦 collections.rom.on.ca/objects/3736... The ancient world was full of kids and color.
January 28, 2026 at 7:06 PM
The Royal Ontario Museum added thousands of objects to their only museum catalogue last year—which now totals almost 90,000 objects. My favorite remains this late antique child’s sock from Roman Egypt. 🧦 collections.rom.on.ca/objects/3736... The ancient world was full of kids and color.
By the 13th century, the relatively difficult and low-status work of peasant grain production in Fayyum has now become nearly the exclusive preserve of Muslims. While the poll tax surely played a role in inducing the poorest to convert, this is hundreds of years after its implementation...
May 22, 2026 at 11:30 AM
By the 13th century, the relatively difficult and low-status work of peasant grain production in Fayyum has now become nearly the exclusive preserve of Muslims. While the poll tax surely played a role in inducing the poorest to convert, this is hundreds of years after its implementation...
I know most people know about the Fayyum coffin portraits from Roman-era Egypt, but they still blow me away every time I see one. This one in particular seems hauntingly real, as if you could step out your door and see this bloke walking down your street.
🏛️📷 NY Met
🏺 AncientBlueSky
🏛️📷 NY Met
🏺 AncientBlueSky
November 14, 2023 at 7:03 AM
I know most people know about the Fayyum coffin portraits from Roman-era Egypt, but they still blow me away every time I see one. This one in particular seems hauntingly real, as if you could step out your door and see this bloke walking down your street.
🏛️📷 NY Met
🏺 AncientBlueSky
🏛️📷 NY Met
🏺 AncientBlueSky
Bani Salah, Fayyum, Egypt, by Paul Strand
American, 1890–1976
1959, printed 1980
More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/100995
American, 1890–1976
1959, printed 1980
More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/100995
February 28, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Bani Salah, Fayyum, Egypt, by Paul Strand
American, 1890–1976
1959, printed 1980
More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/100995
American, 1890–1976
1959, printed 1980
More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/100995
🧵The story of Yorkshire’s old Yeomanry cavalry regiments is a tale of social class, regional pride and military evolution. Raised in 1794 during the French Revolutionary Wars, these unique volunteer units were raised by wealthy landowners and manned by local farmers (with their horses) and tradesmen
June 14, 2026 at 7:21 AM
🧵The story of Yorkshire’s old Yeomanry cavalry regiments is a tale of social class, regional pride and military evolution. Raised in 1794 during the French Revolutionary Wars, these unique volunteer units were raised by wealthy landowners and manned by local farmers (with their horses) and tradesmen
This wonderful encaustic 'Fayyum' mummy portrait depicts a youthful bearded man wearing a gold ivy wreath on his head. The geometric pattern along the neck of his tunic and the background are also gilded. In Egyptian art, the gods had golden skin, and this usage symbolized immortality. 🏺
📸 me
📸 me
May 13, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This wonderful encaustic 'Fayyum' mummy portrait depicts a youthful bearded man wearing a gold ivy wreath on his head. The geometric pattern along the neck of his tunic and the background are also gilded. In Egyptian art, the gods had golden skin, and this usage symbolized immortality. 🏺
📸 me
📸 me
Another paper from our new open access Genizah volume (brill.com/display/titl...), this time by GRU elder statesman, Avihai Shivtiel. He gives a short & sweet translation of an Egyptian Jewish teasure map: "If you arrive at al-Fayyum, ask for a village named Kharba . . ."
#skystorians #medievalsky
#skystorians #medievalsky
November 29, 2024 at 10:03 AM
Another paper from our new open access Genizah volume (brill.com/display/titl...), this time by GRU elder statesman, Avihai Shivtiel. He gives a short & sweet translation of an Egyptian Jewish teasure map: "If you arrive at al-Fayyum, ask for a village named Kharba . . ."
#skystorians #medievalsky
#skystorians #medievalsky
went to the art museum, which rules.*
December 11, 2024 at 6:48 PM
went to the art museum, which rules.*
Die zernagten Papyri von #Fayyum (Ägypten), oder: Das #Archivwesen als zentrales Herrschaftsinstrument des Römischen Imperiums, Archivvernachlässigung als Widerstand.
#Papyrus
#Papyrus
Als Roms Archive versagten
Eine rätselhafte Krise zeigt, wie Archivwissen zur Macht des Imperiums wurde
www.derstandard.at
October 1, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Die zernagten Papyri von #Fayyum (Ägypten), oder: Das #Archivwesen als zentrales Herrschaftsinstrument des Römischen Imperiums, Archivvernachlässigung als Widerstand.
#Papyrus
#Papyrus
If you wanna know what modern thought on religion and spirituality has to do with pimped out crocodiles in ancient Fayyum, the perceptive world of rats, and Hatsune Miku, it recommend you check out my free Worldbuilding Religion Megapost. It has lots of cool drawings
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February 16, 2026 at 7:44 PM
If you wanna know what modern thought on religion and spirituality has to do with pimped out crocodiles in ancient Fayyum, the perceptive world of rats, and Hatsune Miku, it recommend you check out my free Worldbuilding Religion Megapost. It has lots of cool drawings
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So here's a 2nd cent. mummy portrait of a relatively dark-skinned Egyptian man whose fillet proclaims him as a priest of Serapis, a Ptolemaic/Egyptian god, but whose clothing marks him as a Roman citizen of some wealth and standing (purple stripe).
(British Museum EA74714). 20/
(British Museum EA74714). 20/
October 1, 2024 at 4:32 PM
So here's a 2nd cent. mummy portrait of a relatively dark-skinned Egyptian man whose fillet proclaims him as a priest of Serapis, a Ptolemaic/Egyptian god, but whose clothing marks him as a Roman citizen of some wealth and standing (purple stripe).
(British Museum EA74714). 20/
(British Museum EA74714). 20/
The remoteness and hostility of Wadi al Hitan allowed good preservation of the fossil bed since its discovery in 1901.
Thousands of specimens are found close together, some still articulated, preserved in mudstone following rapid encasement in sediment.
Thousands of specimens are found close together, some still articulated, preserved in mudstone following rapid encasement in sediment.
February 15, 2024 at 12:24 AM
The remoteness and hostility of Wadi al Hitan allowed good preservation of the fossil bed since its discovery in 1901.
Thousands of specimens are found close together, some still articulated, preserved in mudstone following rapid encasement in sediment.
Thousands of specimens are found close together, some still articulated, preserved in mudstone following rapid encasement in sediment.
The Alfayyum
Egyptian: yum (lake)
Coptic: p-yum (the lake)
Arabic: al-fayyum (the the lake)
English: the alfayyum (the the the lake)
Egyptian: yum (lake)
Coptic: p-yum (the lake)
Arabic: al-fayyum (the the lake)
English: the alfayyum (the the the lake)
July 27, 2026 at 2:56 PM
The Alfayyum
Egyptian: yum (lake)
Coptic: p-yum (the lake)
Arabic: al-fayyum (the the lake)
English: the alfayyum (the the the lake)
Egyptian: yum (lake)
Coptic: p-yum (the lake)
Arabic: al-fayyum (the the lake)
English: the alfayyum (the the the lake)