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Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to upper class mummies from Roman Egypt. They belong to the tradition of panel painting,one of the most highly regarded forms of art in the Classical world. The Fayum portraits are the only large body of art from that tradition to have survived. They were formerly,and incorrectly,called Coptic portraits.
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Arthur Frank "Peter" Shore was a British Egyptologist,academic and museum curator,who specialised in Roman Egypt and Late Antiquity. He took degrees in classics and Oriental studies (Egyptology) at the University of Cambridge,before being elected a Fellow of King's College,Cambridge in 1955. He then worked at the British Museum from 1957 to 1974,and was Brunner Professor of Egyptology at the University of Liverpool from 1974 to 1991.
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