Friday, September 11, 2020

Eirene

Look how beautiful. A Fayum portret from a young woman with the name Eirene from 40 AD (around). The text under her head is in demotic and reads: "Eirene, daughter of Silvanus, her mother is Senpnoutis. May her soul live before Osiris-Sokar, the great god, lord of Abydos". Almost 2,000 years old!

 
P.S. Source wiki commons: here
P.P.S. More details. For Borg it is: "the most beautiful sight in the world" (German: der zierlichste Anblick der Welt).

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