Egypt Century 1
This lifetime was discovered in August, 2005 "Located some one hundred kilometers south of Cairo, Fayyum is a green and fertile region in a vast circular depression. Its diameter from east to west is approximately 60 kilometers, northwest of the lake of Birket Qarun. The ancient Egyptians called this region Mer-our (The Great Lake). Fayyum played a significant role during the 12th Dynasty, and later under the Ptolemies. The Fayyum portraits conflict in an intriguing manner, scattered as they are around the world in museums and collections and, which, here, bring together the image to be viewed as a whole. An ideal museum, which may be visited city by city, to which we soon become attached, to the extent that, during the visit, already familiar traits await us, as one of this art's truly ambiguous features is its ability to multiply effigies which, at first sight, quickly, even too quickly, elicit a feeling of déjà-vu. Going back to the portraits, one can observe that, whatever the superficial differences, one can reach another level through increased attention, namely that of spiritual import; as though the artist, faced with the oneness of his models, tried to bring them, feature by feature, to the point where the spirit opens itself to another dimension, to a common destiny." - Berger Foundation The realization of this lifetime originated from a flashback and subsequently recognizing some of these paintings when I saw them 6 years later. This lifetime was discovered in August 2005.
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