Images Dated 11th January 2011

Portrait of a youth in a gold wreath, Fayum mummy portrait, Romano-Egyptian, early 2nd century

Portrait of a youth in a gold wreath, Fayum mummy portrait, Romano-Egyptian, early 2nd century. Such portraits were apparently kept at home during the subject's lifetime and added on his death to his mummified corpse. They are often known as Fayum portraits after the place in Egypt where many of them were found. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

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Antiochus and Stratonike, 18th century. Artist: Gaspare Diziani

Antiochus and Stratonike, 18th century. Antiochus I Soter (d261 BC) was a king of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. He married his stepmother, Stratonice, after his father, Seleucus I Nicator, disovered that Antiochus was in danger of dying of lovesickness for her. Found in the collection of the State Open-air Museum Peterhof, St Petersburg

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