Great Mummy Portrait site (Fayum)

[LUCIUS ALFENUS AVITIANUS]

Ivan (aka Faventianus) one time show me a Fayum portrait that was incredible close to me!

Faventianus, can you found it and post?

[Senovara]

Wow, I had never heard of the Fayum portraits before. Speaking as a portrait artist, these are really spectacular! I'd love to re-create the style just for fun.

hmm, for some reason the English version of the site doesn't work - good thing I know a little French!

[Lucius Galerius Falconius]

this is so awesome, I've always wondered what they looked like and most of them seem like people you'd see on the streets and not that different...just wonder what their teeth would look like...did they have bad dental care?

anyways:

someone did a reconstruction of a face http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Reco ... 1.21.1.JPG

[Senovara]

That reconstruction model was neat!

hmm, I can't imagine their teeth would have been horrible. I read somewhere that people didn't have major tooth decay until sugar was used, and I think that was around the 1700's in Europe. That's why parents always say "Candy rots your teeth"! LOL