Linda Eisenstein
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#DailyArtSpout #AfricaAndByzantium

This funerary portrait from Egypt, ~ 100 CE, is encaustic (wax) on linen. In the Community Voices video, Karamu CEO Tony Sias discusses his reaction to seeing an Egyptian "with dark skin & wooly hair" unlike the European features people assume them to have had.
09:36 AM - Apr 20, 2024
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My Flying Car 2020
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In response to Linda Eisenstein.
Looking like the Eritreans of today.
12:58 AM - Apr 21, 2024
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3Cs
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Surprise!
09:58 AM - Apr 20, 2024
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Isa-Lee Wolf
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I wonder if the portraits reflect them when they died, or if they were commissioned earlier for use after death.

He looks quite young, and very handsome.
09:56 AM - Apr 20, 2024
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Linda Eisenstein
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In response to Isa-Lee Wolf.
Great question. I don't know. But many funerary portraits seem to be of younger faces. Here's another from the same era & place, a woman.
10:14 AM - Apr 20, 2024
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