The Mysterious Fayum Portraits AC25 magic and religion were inextricably

magic and religion were inextricably intertwined

author of Maurice and MaralynFrom the author of The End We Start From

One of the twentieth century's great undisputed masterpieces

The eighth edition is fully updated with new and improved questions and refreshed chapter vignettes

Johnny Cay

The Mysterious Fayum Portraits AC25 magic and religion were inextricablyThis acclaimed survey, now in an updated format with a new foreword by Ahdaf Soueif, offers a richly illustrated account of the history and discovery of astonishing funerary portraits from Greco Roman Egypt. These remarkable paintings take their name from a district of Roman Egypt, whose inhabitants in the first three centuries CE included Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, Syrians, Libyans, Nubians, and Jews. In the Egyptian tradition, they embalmed the