Category: sappho

A Fayum mummy portrait, a painted portrait on wooden board attached to the body of an usually upper class person before burial in Roman Egypt.              Immortal Aphrodite, on your intricately brocaded throne,             child of Zeus, weaver of wiles, this I pray:             Dear Lady, don’t crush my heart             with pains and sorrows.           But come here, if ever before,             when you heard…