Fayumn.
/ˈfeɪjuːm/ Used attributively to designate articles discovered in Fayum.
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1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 497/2 Fayum Gospel Fragment.—This small fragment contains two sayings of Christ and one of Peter.
1937 Burlington Mag. July 53/2 Comparison of Karanis and other Fayum glasses with those from the other areas of marketing.
1961 M. 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.
Derivatives
Fayumic n. /ˈfeɪjuːmɪk/ a dialect of Coptic.
/ˈfeɪjuːmɪk/ a dialect of Coptic.ΘΚΠ
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Nubian1605
Coptic1711
Bohairic1830
Fayumic1902
1902 Encycl. Brit. 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.].
1948 R. H. Pfeiffer Introd. to O.T. (1952) 115 Portions of the Scriptures are also preserved..in Fayumic.
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