"portrait" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Scholarship assumes that Aline is the woman buried in the tomb and equipped with a mummy portrait.
- The sad, wistful gaze is typical of mummy portraits.
- It is commonly used on the mummy portraits of women and even young girls.
- About 900 mummy portraits are known at present.
- Although interest in Ancient Egypt steadily increased after that period, further finds of mummy portraits did not become known before the early 19th century.
- Once again, a long period elapsed before more mummy portraits came to light.
- As a result, mummy portraits became the centre of much attention.
- Today, mummy portraits are represented in all important archaeological museums of the world.
- Not everyone could afford a mummy portrait; many mummies were found without one.
- The religious meaning of mummy portraits has not, so far, been fully explained, nor have associated grave rites.
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