• The Fayum alphabet is an Ancient Greek abecedary inscribed on four copper plates, purportedly found in Fayum, Egypt but made in Cyprus. It may preserve...
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    century, some for the 9th, but none of these are widely accepted. The Fayum alphabet, originating on Cyprus, seems to be older than the fragmentary Greek...
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    Faiyum (redirect from Fayum)
    Faiyum Egypt portal List of cities and towns in Egypt Book of the Faiyum Fayum alphabet Faiyum mummy portraits Lake Moeris Lake El Rayan Phiomia (an extinct...
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    after slay. A Researcher's Guide to Local History Terminology Fayum alphabet Alphabet book Pangram Lang, M. (1976). The Athenian Agora: Results of excavations...
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    migrant and vagrant bird. Bahr Yussef Crocodilopolis Faiyum Lake El Rayan Fayum alphabet Faiyum Governorate Faiyum mummy portraits Lake Moeris Roman Egypt "Wadi...
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    turn was also to advance P. Fayum 110 and Abb 34 (though not P.Lond. 1.130) as dated comparators to 𝔓52, identifying P. Fayum 110 as the "most important...
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  • Verrall Lucas. The "interesting tombs in the Fayum" refers to the Fayum Basin south of Cairo, famous for Fayum mummy portraits. Angela Warren refers to Shakespeare...
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    Coptic language (category Greek alphabet)
    the Egyptian language. It is written with the Coptic alphabet, a modified form of the Greek alphabet with seven additional letters borrowed from the Demotic...
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    them have survived. The best known examples of ancient panel painting, the Fayum mummy portraits and the Severan Tondo, are of Roman date. The Pitsa panels...
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    gaze. Incomitant strabismus of the eso- or exo-type are classified as "alphabet patterns": they are denoted as A- or V- or more rarely λ-, Y- or X-pattern...
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    200 AD. From Roman Egypt there are a large number of what are known as Fayum mummy portraits, bust portraits on wood added to the outside of mummies...
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    provinces, often combining Greek, Roman, and local traditions, as with the Fayum mummy portraits. Hellenistic Greek style and leadership expectations carried...
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    first century AD, the Coptic alphabet started to be used alongside the Demotic script. Coptic is a modified Greek alphabet with the addition of some Demotic...
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    on 10 May 2022. Retrieved 24 June 2022. Fayum, Qarunian Archived 5 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine (Fayum B, about 6000–5000 BCE?), Digital Egypt...
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  • cotton cloth manufacturing. Egyptian writing was replaced by the Meroitic alphabet. The lion god Apedemak was added to the Egyptian pantheon of gods. Trade...
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    1887, Flinders Petrie found painted sherds of Cretan style at Kahun in the Fayum, and farther up the Nile, at Tell el-Amarna, chanced on bits of no fewer...
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    Six of the Fayum mummy portraits, contemporary portraits of people in Roman Egypt from the 1st century BC to the 3rd century AD...
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    KamelzĂŒchter: Das Alltags- und Sozialleben der Sobek-Priester im kaiserzeitlichen Fayum. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. pp. 52–58, 208–227. ISBN 978-3-447-11485-1. Vandorpe...
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    south of Al Ula to as far north as the Golan Heights, and as far East as Fayum in Egypt since at least the Early Mamluk age, but the migration that was...
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    III in the Twelfth Dynasty (about 1800 BC) using the natural lake of the Fayûm as a reservoir to store surpluses of water for use during the dry seasons...
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    samples included in the study is skeletal material from the Hawara tombs of Fayum, which clustered very closely with the Badarian series of the predynastic...
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    including the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, the Story of Wenamun, and various Fayum portraits Timofey Granovsky, a founder of mediaeval studies in Russia, disproved...
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    to the development of realistic Roman portraiture. In Roman Egypt, the Fayum mummy portraits reflect traditions of Egyptian and Roman funerary portraiture...
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    Campbell points out that van Eyck "appears to have employed the Greek alphabet systematically", and always employed the square sigma C for the Latin "S"...
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  • including the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, the Story of Wenamun, and various Fayum portraits Timofey Granovsky, a founder of mediaeval studies in Russia, disproved...
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  • Exodus - Exodus Decoded Faience - Farouk of Egypt - Fatimid - Al Fayyum - Fayum - Fedayeen - Bonner Fellers - First Battle of El Alamein - First dynasty...
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    generally, but not always, second in the name, but are usually ignored in alphabetizing below: Campi (/ˈkĂŠmpaÉȘ/) – fields Cherso (/ˈkɜːrsoʊ/) – peninsula Cornu...
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