Fayum mummy portraits
（重定向自Fayum Portrait）
![Mummy portrait of a young woman, 3rd century, Louvre, Paris.](/Images/godic/202501/12/Fayum-340742.jpg")
![Fanciful but inauthentic depiction of the mummies' discovery by Pietro Della Valle](/Images/godic/202501/12/Engraving_of_finding_mummies_in_Sakkara_by_Pietro_Della_Valle0742.gif")
![The single specimen of Gayet's mummy portraits from Antinoopolis for which information on its archaeological context is available. The heavily gilt portrait was found in winter 1905/06 and sold to Berlin in 1907. Berlin, Egyptian Museum.](/Images/godic/202501/12/Fayum-350742.jpg")
![Detail of a portrait within its mummy wrappings, Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was discovered by Flinders Petrie in a burial chamber in 1911.](/Images/godic/202501/12/Fayum-070742.jpg")
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 mummies from the Coptic period. 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.