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• a variation of Faiyum.

Fayum

British  

/ faɪˈjuːm /

noun

1. See El Faiyûm

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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

In early life he retired to the wilderness, and lived in seclusion until 305, when he founded the monastery of Fayum, near Memphis and Arsinoë.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen