<P> Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits ( also Faiyum mummy portraits ) is the modern term given to a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to Egyptian mummies from Roman Egypt . They belong to the tradition of panel painting , one of the most highly regarded forms of art in the Classical world . In fact , the Fayum portraits are the only large body of art from that tradition to have survived . </P>
naturalistic encaustic portraits of the roman era from the fayum oasis in egypt were created as
Fayum mummy portraits