Common ethnicity was not at all irrelevant to Romepic.twitter.com/i3aSCuHnCc
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The Roman Empire produced cultural convergence outside of Italy, but unevenly. It is not clear that the Romans themselves ever intended to do so, but it became on of their great strengths: getting people of other cultures to buy into Rome.
The examples I love to use when I teach are second century mummy portraits from Egypt - Egyptians often freely mixing their own styles with dress that marks them as Roman citizens. E.g. https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=119830&partId=1&searchText=Fayum+mummy+portraits&page=1 …
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The new identity (I am a Roman citizen) doesn't replace the old one (I am an Egyptian man), they layer over each other (I used a man for the example above, but female mummy portraits show the same trends). You can see this in many of the provinces - Egypt just has great art.
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A lot of Roman elites could be very snobbish about this, complaining about foreign dress and such. But the endurance of the empire was predicated on its ability to get people who were *not* Roman to buy in and decide to *become* Roman - while remaining Greek/Egyptian/Gallic/etc
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