Friday Flick Part 3 | It’s time for the ‘Friday Flick’ – where I randomly flick through my 140,000 word PhD thesis on Children’s Jewellery History and tell you a story about what’s on the page I land on!
Let’s go…
Today’s flick takes us back over 2000 years and details the Fayum Portrait of a young boy wearing amuletic jewellery.
The ‘Fayum’ or ‘Mummy’ portraits are a unique collection of paintings originating from the Fayum region, an area south of Cairo, in Egypt.
They date to the first three centuries AD, and although from Egypt they reflect a Romano Egyptian style and portray the fashions worn by children and adults at that time.
Today’s flick details fig 60 of my PhD thesis: c.200 AD Fayum Portrait of a Boy wearing a ‘brown’ cylindrical amulet and two leather bullae around his neck and a ‘brown’ hair-pin. From er-Rubayat. National Museum of Ireland, Dublin
