EditorialMummy Portrait of a Woman; Unknown; Er-Rubayat, Egypt, Africa; 175 - 200; Tempera on wood; Object: H: 28.2 x W: 14.5 cm (11 1/8 x 5 11/16 in.).
EditorialMummy Portrait of a Woman; Unknown; Er-Rubayat, Egypt, Africa; 175 - 200; Tempera on wood; Object: H: 28.2 x W: 14.5 cm (11 1/8 x 5 11/16 in.).
EditorialMummy Portrait of a Young Woman; Unknown; Er-Rubayat, Egypt, Africa; about 170 - 200; Tempera on wood; Object: H: 34.9 x W: 21.3 cm (13 3/4 x 8 3/8 in.).
EditorialMummy Portrait of a Bearded Man; Unknown; Er-Rubayat (probably), Egypt, Africa; about 150 - 170; Encaustic on wood; Object: H: 37 x W: 21 cm (14 9/16 x 8 1/4 in.).
EditorialRubayat of Omar Khayyam: The quatrains of Omar Kayyam were a collection of verses representing a cultured form of poetry strictly correlated to mystical literature as well as to Islam's religious tradition. Kayyam was a Persian mathematiian and astrono...