Isidora

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Visitors to the Getty Villa in Los Angeles—the oceanside site of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s antiquities collection—have good reason to curse Theodosius as they gaze upon the sublime portrait of Isidora, painted around A.D.

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One such portrait, with little doubt the finest of its kind, is that of Isidora.

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Particularly striking are Isidora’s eyelashes, which were carved into hot wax as it was applied to the thin wood panel on which the portrait was painted.

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Isidora was Greek, and her name is etched in black ink on the left side of the red-tinted fragments of wrapping that still adhere to her portrait.

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Communities of Greco-Egyptians thrived, often in the most productive regions, such as El-Hibeh, where Isidora’s portrait was found.

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