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Faiyum
[ fahy-yoom ]
noun
- a province in north central Egypt: many archaeological remains. 691 sq. mi. (1,790 sq. km).
- Also called El Faiyum, a city in and the capital of this province, southwest of Cairo.
adjective
- pertaining to or designating a style of portrait painting developed in Egypt under Roman rule, examples of which have been found principally in Faiyum dating from the 2nd and 3rd centuries a.d., characterized chiefly by the frontality of the head, the modeling of form, and emphasis on the eyes.
贵补颈测没尘
/ 蹿补瑟藞箩耻藧尘 /
noun
- See El 贵补颈测没尘
Example Sentences
Nearby,聽Ashraf Goma, 19, said he chats daily on social media聽with a 17-year-old friend in Italy who left their village in Faiyum province to the south six months ago.
Fifteen years ago, while working on a dig in Egypt's Faiyum Basin, he and his colleagues uncovered the fossilized remains of a now-extinct聽Zenkerella cousin.
Cairo has requested his return to stand trial for inciting a 1989 riot outside a mosque in Faiyum, southwest of the capital.
By a fluke of custom and climate, the residents of Faiyum are today among the best known锟給r at least most clearly visualized锟絚itizens of classic times.
One of the most cosmopolitan outposts of the Roman Empire during the 1st to 4th centuries A.D. was Egypt's Faiyum region, about 60 miles south of Cairo on the Nile.
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