I swear I know this guy!

A very realistic #Fayum type portrait of a middle-aged man.
#AncientEgypt #Roman period, encaustic painting on wood

Photo by Hans Ollermann, from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
https://www.flickr.com/photos/menesje/25662113692/in/pool-831028@N23/
#ArtHistory

I swear I know this guy!

A very realistic #Fayum type portrait of a middle-aged man.
#AncientEgypt #Roman period, encaustic painting on wood

Photo by Hans Ollermann, from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
https://www.flickr.com/photos/menesje/25662113692/in/pool-831028@N23/
#ArtHistory

Four striking so-called #Fayum Romano-Egyptian mummy portraits from the #BrooklynMuseum. The difference between encaustic (the first and fourth portraits) and tempera (second and third portraits) is really striking. Encaustic brings the subject to life. #archaeology

The #ancient #Egyptian deity #Soknopaios has the shape of a #crocodile with the head of a #falcon and was a manifestation of the Egyptian crocodile god Sobek.

He was worshipped as an #oracle and #healing god in the #Fayum oasis.

His central temple was in the Egyptian town Soknopaiou Nesos, today called Dimê.

Soknopaiou Nesos means the „Island of Soknopaios“.

#Statue of Soknopaios, #Steatite
Dating uncertain
The Walters Art Museum

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#ancientmagic #egyptology archaeology #materialculture

Gold #Roman signet ring with carnelian or garnet intaglio from Petra, Jordan. It is small so it is believed that it belonged to a child, but it could have been worn by an adult person on the pinky finger what we can see on shrouds from #Fayum or sculptures from #Palmyra . The ring was found in the ruins of the Qasr al-Bint, the temple where the Nabataean god Dushara was probably worshiped.

#Dushara #Nabataean #Petra
#RomanRed #Archaeology

"Painted panel from a wooden casket, depicting Aphrodite in a shrine adorning herself with a necklace."
From #Fayum, #Roman time Egypt.
Panel is dated to 250-300 CE
© The Trustees of the British Museum https://www.bmimages.com/preview.asp?image=01265342001
#AncientColors

First (belated) #fossilfriday on Mastodon is: Palaeomaston! This molar is from a cow-sized proboscidean that stomped through the forests of the Fayum Depression of Egypt 30 million years ago. It’s lower tusks formed a scoop and its upper tusks curved around the scoop. #paleontology #elephants #fossils #science #ancient #oligocene #fayum

First (belated) #fossilfriday on Mastodon is: Palaeomaston! This molar is from a cow-sized proboscidean that stomped through the forests of the Fayum Depression of Egypt 30 million years ago. It’s lower tusks formed a scoop and its upper tusks curved around the scoop. #paleontology #elephants #fossils #science #ancient #oligocene #fayum