Mummy portrait (wax encaustic on sycamore wood) of a girl, from the Fayum region of Egypt. Artist unknown; ca. 120-150 CE (reign of Hadrian or Antoninus Pius). Now in the Liebieghaus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Photo credit: Carole Raddato.
Egyptian mummy portrait (encaustic on wood) of a Roman soldier wearing a gold wreath. Artist unknown; ca. 130 CE (reign of the emperor Hadrian). Found at er-Rubayat in the Fayum; acquired in 1927 and now in the collection of the Altes Museum, Berlin. Photo credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP/Wikimedia Commons.
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The Egyptian deity Horus as a Roman emperor. The figure bears the falcon-head of Horus, topped by the characteristic double crown (pschent) of Egyptian pharaohs, but also wears Roman armor (specifically lorica squamata, consisting of metal scales sewn to a fabric backing) with a small gorgoneion. Artist unknown; 2nd cent. CE. Now in the Louvre. Photo credit: © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons /
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Ancient Egyptian mummy portrait (encaustic on wood) of a boy identified by an inscription as Eutyches. Artist unknown; 2nd cent. CE (Roman period). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Statuette (copper alloy) of the composite Greco-Egyptian deity Serapis Amun Agathodaimon. Artist unknown; 1st cent. BCE/CE (late Hellenistic or early Imperial). From Egypt; now in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece. Photo credit: George E. Koronaios.
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Portrait (encaustic on wood) of a noblewoman from Roman Egypt. Artist unknown; ca. 150 CE (Antonine). Now in the Brooklyn Museum. Photo credit: Brooklyn Museum.
Ancient Egyptian cartonnage mask. Artist unknown; 2nd cent. CE (Roman period). Now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Photo credit: LACMA.
Marble sculpture of the Emperor Hadrian's lover Antinous as Osiris. Artist unknown; 130-138 CE. Now in the Graeco-Roman Museum, Alexandria, Egypt.
Funerary portrait (encaustic on wood) of a young girl from Roman Egypt. Artist unknown; ca. 25-37 CE (latter part of the reign of Tiberius). From the Fayum; now in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Limestone sculpture from Roman Egypt, depicting the goddess Isis as a Roman matron. Now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Photo credit: Mary Harrsch/Wikimedia Commons.
Funerary portrait of a woman from Roman Egypt. Artist unknown; ca. 138-192 CE (Antonine period). From the Fayum; now in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Knife with a handle in the form of a horse’s head, believed to come from Roman Egypt. Artist unknown; 1st/2nd cent. CE. Now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Photo credit: LACMA.
Terracotta head of a bearded satyr. Artist unknown; 1st or 2nd cent. CE. From Alexandria, Egypt; now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Photo credit: LACMA.
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Terracotta statuette from Roman Egypt depicting the deities Harpocrates and Agathodaimon, the latter of whom is in the form of a snake. Now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. Photo credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen/Wikimedia Commons.
Gilded mummy mask of a woman, with recumbent jackals and an ibis flanked by two goddesses (perhaps Isis and Nephthys). Artist unknown; between 50 BCE and 50 CE (late Ptolemaic or early Roman period). Now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.
Funerary stele of a Greek-speaking Egyptian named Elemon (Ἐλέμων) from Lycopolis, depicting the deceased in traditional Egyptian dress, being escorted by Hathor and Anubis to Osiris. Artist unknown; 1st cent. CE (Roman period). Now in the Louvre.
Wooden cupboard (?) door, carved by a Coptic artist in Byzantine Egypt (5th cent. CE). Now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.