Weir, Irene, 1863-1944 · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn & Company · leaf 277
tswere painted originally for family use in the home. Some were re-moved to be at-tached to themummy, butmost of themseem to havebeen copies onpanels of cypressor sycamorewood, from origi-nals painted infresco on thewall of a room. The periodof their execution ranges from the second centurybefore… … Portraits of P. Paquius Proculusand his Wife, Pompeii GRECO-EGYPTIAN PORTRAITS 255 The evidence that the group of portraits whichinclude the best must have been painted in the timeof the Ptolemies is to be found in records whichprove to a demonstration that, so early as in thesecond century before…
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