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Egyptian mummy portraits show antiquity's piercing gaze in new Rome show

'Egypt And Rome, The Faces Of Fayum' exhibition at Rome's Ara Pacis museum, also includes mummies, masks, shrouds, jewellery, marble busts and statuary

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A funerary portrait of a man from Roman Egypt, displayed at a preview of 'Egypt And Rome: The Faces Of The Fayum' at the Ara Pacis Museum in central Rome. Photo: AFP

An elegant woman gazes out from her portrait with expressive eyes, a gilded wreath worn in her hair and a gentle, questioning look on her face.

She is one of the 2,000-year-old "Faces of Fayum", startlingly realistic funerary - or mummy - portraits painted after Egypt became part of the Roman empire.

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