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Fayum|ˈfeɪjuːm|
The name of a province in upper Egypt, used attrib. to designate articles discovered there. Also Fayumic |ˈfeɪjuːmɪk|, a dialect of Coptic.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXV. 497/2 Fayum Gospel Fragment.—This small fragment contains two sayings of Christ and one of Peter. Ibid. XXVII. 727/2 The main divisions of Christian Coptic as recognized and named at present are: Sahidic... Fayumic; [spoken] in the Fayum (formerly named wrongly ‘Bashmuric’..) [etc.]. 1937Burlington Mag. July 53/2 Comparison of Karanis and other Fayum glasses with those from the other areas of marketing. 1948R. H. Pfeiffer Introd. to O.T. (1952) 115 Portions of the Scriptures are also preserved..in Fayumic. 1961M. Levy Studio Dict. Art Terms 49 Fayum portrait, intensely realistic portraits of deceased persons painted by the artists of Fayum..usually on mummy cases. The portraits belong to the first four centuries of the Christian era. |