Cov kws tshawb fawb tau kawm txog Fayum portrait ntawm ib tug ntxhais hluas hnub nyoog rov qab mus rau xyoo pua 2nd thiab khaws cia rau hauv Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Lawv pom cov qog ntawm nws lub caj dab thiab qhia tias nws yog qhov tseeb sawv cev ntawm goiter - qhov loj ntawm cov thyroid caj pas. Qhov no tau tshaj tawm nyob rau hauv ib tsab xov xwm luam tawm nyob rau hauv Journal of Endocrinological Investigation.
Txog ib puas kilometers sab hnub poob ntawm Cairo yog Fayum oasis, nyob rau hauv ib qho kev nyuaj siab nrog thaj tsam ntawm ob txhiab square kilometers. Cov neeg tau nyob hauv lub oasis txij li lub sijhawm prehistoric, tab sis nws txoj kev lag luam thiab kev coj noj coj ua tau pib thaum pib ntawm xyoo pua 2nd BC, thaum lub peev tshiab tau tsim los ntawm cov vaj ntxwv ntawm 12th dynasty - lub nroog Iti-Tawi. Ua tsaug rau cov kwj dej thiab cov pas dej da dej hauv Fayum oasis, thaj chaw loj yog dej, uas tso cai rau nws los ua thaj tsam nplua nuj tshaj plaws hauv tebchaws Iziv.
Lub Fayum kuj vam meej nyob rau yav tom ntej, thaum lub teb chaws tau kav thawj zaug los ntawm Ptolemaic dynasty thiab tom qab ntawd los ntawm cov neeg Loos. Txawm hais tias muaj ntau qhov kev tshawb pom hauv cheeb tsam, lub oasis yog lub npe hu ua Fayum portraits. Lawv feem ntau yog cov sawv cev tiag tiag ua hauv Greco-Roman style uas npog ntsej muag ntawm mummies. Cov kev lig kev cai ntawm lawv cov khoom tsim tau rov qab mus rau lub sijhawm thaum muaj ntau tus neeg txawv tebchaws pib nyob hauv Fayum, uas tau txais kev paub txog Egyptian thaum ub ntawm embalming cov neeg tuag. Tab sis tib lub sij hawm, ntawm lub ntsej muag ntawm mummies, lawv tsis tau muab lub ntsej muag voluminous, tab sis portraits. Cov khoom qub qub no rov qab mus rau thawj ib puas xyoo AD thiab qee zaum pom sab nraum Fayum Oasis. Cov kws tshawb fawb tam sim no paub txog ib txhiab Fayum portraits.
Raffaella Bianucci ntawm University of Palermo, nrog rau cov npoj yaig los ntawm Australia, Tebchaws Askiv thiab Lub Tebchaws Yelemees, tau kawm txog Fayum portrait ntawm ib tug ntxhais hluas hnav lub wreath gilded. Cov khoom qub no, uas ntsuas 36.5 x 17.8 centimeters, tau txais hauv Egypt thaum ntxov xyoo pua 20th thiab tau sau hnub tim rau AD 120-140. Tam sim no nws nyob hauv Metropolitan Tsev khaws puav pheej ntawm Art.
Cov kws tshawb fawb tau sau tseg tias cov qog pom tau meej meej ntawm tus poj niam lub caj dab, uas tsis zoo li "ntiv nplhaib ntawm Venus" - kev sib hloov ntawm lub caj dab uas tshwm sim los ntawm ntau lub cev lub cev. Nyob rau tib lub sijhawm, raws li cov kws tshawb fawb, feem ntau ntawm Fayum portraits depict tib neeg realistically. Raws li cov kws tshawb fawb, tus poj niam tej zaum yuav goitre. Raws li cov kws tshawb fawb, tsis muaj cov tsos mob ntawm goiter yav dhau los tseem tau sau tseg ntawm cov neeg Iyiv thaum ub, txawm hais tias nws muaj feem ntau tias tus kab mob no tshwm sim. Qhov kev piav qhia yog tias, txawm tias kev tiv thaiv huab hwm coj tau pib hauv tebchaws Iziv xyoo 1995, uas suav nrog ntxiv potassium iodide rau cov lus ntsev (iodization), goitre tseem yog ib qho kab mob hauv Fayoum.
Ua ntej, nws tau pom tseeb tias kev khawb av tau tshwm sim hauv Fayum oasis. Cov kws tshawb fawb Iyiv tau pom qhov chaw faus neeg loj thiab ntau lub faus Greco-Roman uas, ntawm lwm yam, muaj cov papyri thiab mummy fragments nrog Fayum portraits.
