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Discriminalia hair ornaments in Fayum – overview

1. In The Getty Inv. no. 79.AP.129

175–200 CE

Described >> https://www.getty.edu/publications

2. Petrie Museum, London; UC 36215
Photo: Osama Shakir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasgow)

3. Mummy portrait of a young girl; 175 CE
Altes Museum, Berlin, Inv. 31161.32

Photo: Anagoria
https://commons.wikimedia.org


© 2007 Musée du Louvre / Georges Poncet
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Gérard Blot

4. Louvre inv. no. MNC 1693
150 – 199 or 325 – 350 CE

5. Photo source >>

6. Portrait of Tekosis, priestess / devotee of Isis; 180-200 CE [read more]


© The Trustees of the British Museum

7. ca 140-160 CE [read more]

Photo by ArchaiOptix

8. from Philadelphia (erRubayat), ca. 300-320 CE
München, Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst

9. [read more]


10. British Museum inv. no. EA74709

Shroud from Hawara, 50-70 CE

She wears a necklace with a pendant in the shape of a shell, which was a symbol of Aphrodite. It is rare shape of a pendant as for “Fayum” portraits.

11. Portrait of a child; 200-250 CE

Der griechisch-römische Scheitelschmuck und die Funde von Thasos [article]
Victorine Von Gonzenbach

Found in al-Fayyūm, Egypt
Date: about 200-250 CE

In ROM Inv. no. 918.20.2
https://collections.rom.on.ca


12. Private collection; 1st-2nd century