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ancient Egyptians as Shedet, its
current name in
English is also
spelled as
Fayum,
Faiyum or al-Faiyūm.
Faiyum was also
previously officially named Madīnat...
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Mummy portraits or
Fayum mummy portraits are a type of
naturalistic painted portrait on
wooden boards attached to
upper class mummies from
Roman Egypt...
- The
Fayum alphabet is an
Ancient Gr****
abecedary inscribed on four
copper plates,
purportedly found in
Fayum,
Egypt but made in Cyprus. It may preserve...
- Prehistory. 2 (2): 135–185. doi:10.1007/BF00975416. ISSN 1573-7802. "
Fayum,
Qarunian (
Fayum B) (about 6700-5300 BC?)".
Digital Egypt for Universities. University...
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preference for cremation.
Preserved by the dry
desert environment,
these Fayum mummy portraits make up the
richest body of
portraiture to have survived...
- The
Fayyum Fragment (Papyrus
Vindobonensis Gr**** 2325 [P.
Vienna G. 2325]) is a
papyrus fragment containing text that
could be from part of the New Testament...
- The
oldest surviving encaustic panel paintings are the Romano-Egyptian
Fayum mummy portraits from Egypt,
around 100–300 AD, but it was a very common...
- Kamelzüchter: Das Alltags- und
Sozialleben der Sobek-Priester im
kaiserzeitlichen Fayum. Wiesbaden: Harr****owitz. ISBN 978-3-447-11485-1. "Kom Ombo
Temple – Discovering...
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stylistic connections to
Fayum Mummy portraiture including materials and
artistic elements, and its
production has been
located in the
Fayum district of Egypt...
- Art in London. In 1995, she
published a book on the
Fayum portraits,
titled The
Mysterious Fayum Portraits:
Faces from
Ancient Egypt. The book received...
