The Macedonian conquest brought back the same revolution in funerary fashions which followed the fall of the Ramessides, and double and triple mummy cases, over-painted and over-gilded, were again in demand.

If the craftsmen of Graeco-Roman time who attired the dead of Ekhmim for their last resting places were less skilful than those of earlier date, their bad taste was, at all events, not surpassed by the Theban coffin-makers who lived and worked under the latest princes of the royal line of Rameses.
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264 .-- Panel portrait from the Graeco-Roman Cemetery at Hawara, now in the National Gallery, London.

(_Hawara, Biahmu, and Arsinoe_, W.M.F.Petrie, Plate X., page 10.)] A series of Graeco-Roman examples from the Fayum exhibit the stages by which portraiture in the flat there replaced the modelled mask, until towards the middle of the second century A.D.it became customary to bandage over the face of the mummy a panel-portrait of the dead, as he was in life (fig.

264).
The remainder of the funerary outfit supplied the cabinet-maker with as much work as the coffin-maker.