EGYPT, FAIYUM
Roman Period (30 B.C.E.-395 C.E.)
Funerary Portrait: Bearded Man
Late 2nd-early 3rd c. C.E.
Encaustic on panel
34.3 x 19 cm
F. Cleveland Morgan Bequest, inv. 1962.B.3
Archeology and World Cultures
The man wears a red-bordered white toga, an indication both of Rome’s influence on culture and identity, as well as on everyday life, in Egypt in the first centuries of our era.
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