classify morphed ancient romans

[grecoroman]

https://s31.postimg.cc/gk0cs8wsb/1122.png

[Smeagol]

These are Egyptians, not Romans.

[grecoroman]

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?243871-classify-morphed-ancient-egyptians&p=5125081#post5125081

[Mens-Sarda]

Those are Romanized-Hellenized Egyptians, those portraits were painted on the sarcophagi / mummies found in the oasis of Fayum.


https://i.ytimg.com/vi/V8dx1a02Yg8/maxresdefault.jpg

https://mfas3.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/grid-3_thumbnail_retina/s3/Egyptian%2C%20Roman%20Imperial%20Period%2C%20Portr ait%20mummy%20of%20a%20man%2C%20A.D.%20150-175..jpg?itok=cwhPxi8j

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/46/cc/91/46cc91c8ad1cdbb7b2ecc0285265768e.jpg

https://foundinantiquity.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/fayum-39.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/56/9f/cb/569fcbd539a676f9e3a8ba5591a5758d--british-museum-the-face.jpg

https://allkindsofhistory.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/mummy-portrait-in-situ.png

[Bosniensis]

Those are descendants from mixed Roman and North African parents. That's why they have dinaric influence but as mens-sarda said they are not true Romans.

[Columella]

Narrow faced Meds from North Africa.

[MinervaItalica]

Roman citizens of EGYPTIAN stock.

[Kamal900]

They're not Romans as in those from Italy. They're ethnic Egyptians, and they don't look like Europeans either. Mostly east-meds and Aegyptids.

[Tong]

arent romans. They look arab

[grecoroman]

These romans were a mistaken!! What do you Guys think about the second link i gave???

[Percivalle]

Those are descendants from mixed Roman and North African parents. That's why they have dinaric influence but as mens-sarda said they are not true Romans.

They mixed with Greeks mostly, not with Romans. Anyway most of them were just Egyptians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayum_mummy_portraits#Subjects_and_social_context_ of_the_paintings

[Veslan]

Those are Egyptians, not Italic Romans...

Mediterrenean.

[dperucca]

They're not Romans as in those from Italy. They're ethnic Egyptians, and they don't look like Europeans either. Mostly east-meds and Aegyptids.

I guess that put's the american "we waz kangs" theory out of commission lol. They all look very east med to me.

[Kamal900]

I guess that put's the american "we waz kangs" theory out of commission lol. They all look very east med to me.

Indeed. The people today that lay claim to these people are the modern day Copts(not saying that their Muslim counterparts don't. I'm just talking about the culture), and they cluster the closest to Palestinians and Jordanians as well as with Arabians, Yemenite Jews and Mizrahi Jews as well.

[dperucca]

Indeed. The people today that lay claim to these people are the modern day Copts(not saying that their Muslim counterparts don't. I'm just talking about the culture), and they cluster the closest to Palestinians and Jordanians as well as with Arabians, Yemenite Jews and Mizrahi Jews as well.

This just seems obvious to me. Totally off topic but I am watching Egyptian belly dancing right now and it is such a beautiful art form. Deserves a thread if one has not been made yet!

[Profileid]

They look too brachy to be pure meds

[ovidiu]

I've always found the Fayyum Mummy portraits fascinating. Not so much from an anthropological perspective as an artistic one.