Funerary structure and Fayum portraits unearthed

An Egyptian team excavating at Gerza (ancient Philadelphia) in the Fayum has discovered a large Graeco-Roman funerary building with coloured tile floors, and a number of complete and partial mummy portraits.

The remains of a Graeco-Roman funerary structure with colourful tiled floors.

The team also found a number of anthropoid and Greek-style coffins, a rare terracotta statue of Isis-Aphrodite, and administrative papyri written in Demotic and Greek.

top A coloured terracotta figurine depicting the goddess Isis-Aphrodite. above The remains of a Graeco-Roman funerary structure with colourful tiled floors. left A rare find: a complete Roman Period mummy portrait.
A coloured terracotta figurine depicting the goddess Isis-Aphrodite.
A rare find: a complete Roman Period mummy portrait.
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