Ritratti di mummie

Serving as the final volume of Achille Adriani's landmark Repertorio d'Arte dell'Egitto Greco-Romano, this comprehensive catalogue presents the culmination of a half-century endeavor to systematically document Roman-Egyptian mummy portraits. Parlasca and Frenz compile hundreds of wood and canvas painted panels—spanning the first through fourth centuries AD—alongside related funerary artifacts, wooden sarcophagi, and documented post-antique forgeries. Through meticulous entries, the volume re-evaluates contentious scholarly debates regarding portrait production contexts, technique, and chronological frameworks—most notably re-evaluating the traditional timeline against recent severan-era cutoffs. Detailed provenance indexes, institutional cross-references, and updated bibliographical addenda bridge gaps left by earlier volumes, accounting for newly surfaced collection histories, lost artifacts, and private market sales. Enhanced by high-resolution technical imagery, the text offers invaluable critical analysis for art historians, conservators, and classicists examining funerary customs, portraiture traditions, and stylistic evolution across Hellenistic and Imperial Egypt.