L'oeil & l'Eternite: Portraits Romains d'Egypte
Paudex: Fontainemore-Flammarion, 1977. Hardcover. Black cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover; color illus. laid on front cover; clear plastic cover; 224 pp., many BW illus., one color illus. near front. VG- (Plastic cover has scuffs and a few small tears at spine; binding has slight aging around edges; former owner name and year on first page; pages are tanning at edges; text and illus. are clear.). Item #156189
ISBN: 2880040086
Text is in French. In the first three centuries of life in Roman Egypt, people buried their dead and painted portraits of the deceased on wood panels or linen. Shown here are many examples of these Egyptian mummy portraits. An uncommon volume.
Price: $75.00