L'apostrophe muette, essai sur les portraits du Fayoum. Moyen-âge pathologies that the Amerindians call

pathologies that the Amerindians call wetiko

Comprising numerous large-scale sheets of particularly meticulous craftsmanship

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Bernard Plossu

L'apostrophe muette, essai sur les portraits du Fayoum. Moyen-âge pathologies that the Amerindians callThe Fayum portraits are this silent population embodied by faces that excavations have gradually brought out of the tombs. Produced in Roman Egypt in the first three centuries AD, and belonging to both a Greek mimetic tradition and a specifically Egyptian ritual accompaniment, they were not intended to be seen. But since they were found and identified, they have never ceased to fascinate. Scattered across the world, their enigma remains intact, we are