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Jing Dujun pressed: "Once a stupid woman is kidnapped by desire, we men will be robbed by the mentally handicapped." (Ancient Roman writer Albert)
We quoted earlier the novelist Albert T. (t. A passage from the famous satyricon by p. Arbiter (c. 14–66 AD) depicts two female tycoons, Fortuna and Sintila, competing for jewelry with each other at a party. So what exactly does Sindilla rush to show to Fortunata's "Great Golden Pendant Amulet" look like? If we look at egyptian mummified portraits, we can see that Sindira's amulet pendant is probably of the following style:
▲ Portrait of a woman wearing a gold medal amulet
Egypt painted during the reign of the Roman Empire, belonging to the "Portrait of Fayum"
It is now in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Art
▲ Statue of a priestess wearing a gold medal amulet
The priestess holds a pink rose garland
It is now in the Walters Museum of Art in Baltimore
The large round gold medal is a very popular amulet in ancient Roman times, often worn with a very thick gold necklace, and sometimes the gold medal is engraved with the head of the snake-haired banshee Medusa, as shown in the mummified portrait below:
▲ Portrait of a woman wearing medusa's gold medal amulet
It is now in the kunsthistorisches museum in Vienna
In 1615, the Italian adventure travel writer Dravara (p. d. Valle,1586-1652) was the first to discover this mummified portrait, now known as the "Fayoum Portrait," during a trip to Sakkara, Memphis, Egypt, which he described as "the most delicate glimpse in the world." The two mummies with portraits found by Delavara were later transported back to Rome and transported from Rome to Dresden in 1728 – dedicated to Augustus I (1670-1733), the "Mighty King" of Saxony, who had stored them in his treasure house. Today, the two first discovered "Fayoum portraits" are in the Dresden State Art Collection:
▲ A portrait of a woman discovered in 1615
It is now in the Collection of State Art in Dresden
▲ A portrait of a man discovered in 1615
This mummy portrait was unearthed from the seventeenth century all the way to the twentieth century, and since most of the surviving mummy portraits were unearthed in the cemetery of Fayoum, Egypt, and many of the discoveries of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are incomplete and the exact location of the excavation is questionable, this mummy portrait is collectively referred to as "Fayoum portrait". It is a frontal portrait of the tomb owner covering the mummified face, painted from the first century AD to the beginning of the fourth century AD, when Egypt was a province of the Roman Empire. From an art history perspective, the "Fayoum Portrait" clearly shows the influence of ancient Greco-Roman art, in which the clothing, jewelry, hairstyles and even expressions of the tomb owner are depicted in a naturalistic way, replacing the ancient Egyptian mummified mask with a realistic portrait. At the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, "Fayoum portraits" became a popular collection because of their unique aesthetic characteristics. At present, about a thousand or so "Fayoum portraits" are collected in museums large and small around the world.
▲ Portrait of Fayum and his mummy (c. 95-100 AD)
Painted in Egypt during the reign of the Roman Empire
It is now in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum in New York
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