- a variation of Faiyum.
Fayum
Britishnoun
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"Egypt and Rome, the Faces of Fayum", opening Wednesday at Rome's Ara Pacis museum, also includes mummies, masks, shrouds, jewellery, marble busts and statuary.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
Eleven years ago, while working in the Fayum Depression of the Western Desert in Egypt, the team excavated the fossil of what they initially thought was a small amphibian.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2023
He also studied and mimicked the sophisticated painting techniques used in the Fayum portraits.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 22, 2018
One of the Fayum mummy portraits, a collection of funeral images “painted in the ancient Greek tradition,” it depicts an elegantly appointed woman.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2015
Besides supplying the canals of the Fayum with summer water, it fills many of the “basins” of Upper Egypt with water in flood time.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
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