- a variation of Faiyum.
Fayum
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
The paintings, known as Fayum portraits after the region near Cairo where they were found, were discovered on archaeological digs in 1888 and 1911 by William Flinders Petrie.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2012
A large tank was made for the sacred crocodile in the Fayum, and the priests used to follow the reptile around the tank with the offerings brought by devotees.
From The Religion of Ancient Egypt by Sir W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders) Petrie
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