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pantalaimon83.bsky.social
Sarebbe interessante vedere la mostra coi ritratti di El Fayyum che faranno a Roma.
October 6, 2026 at 8:01 PM
badlands.bsky.social
Die zernagten Papyri von #Fayyum (Ägypten), oder: Das #Archivwesen als zentrales Herrschaftsinstrument des Römischen Imperiums, Archivvernachlässigung als Widerstand.
#Papyrus
Als Roms Archive versagten
Eine rätselhafte Krise zeigt, wie Archivwissen zur Macht des Imperiums wurde
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October 1, 2026 at 2:53 AM
katherinelam.bsky.social
Miscellany in Honor of the Virgin Mary 913–914 Touton scriptorium, Fayyūm Province, Egypt from the Morgan Library & Museum website, Coptic manuscripts collection Miscellany in Honor of the Virgin Mary 913–914 Touton scriptorium, Fayyūm Province, Egypt from the Morgan Library & Museum website, Coptic manuscripts collection
September 18, 2026 at 2:51 AM
veliteaquila.bsky.social
Near East, Greece, and Rome. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill

Miks, C. and Davoli, P. (2015) Paola Davoli / Christian Miks, A New ‘Roman’ Sword from Soknopaiou Nesos (El-Fayyum, Egypt. ISAW Papers 9.
September 16, 2026 at 12:23 AM
montenavigante.bsky.social
Massimo Campigli, Ritratto di Olga Capogrossi (1960)....un moderno ritratto del Fayyum
August 27, 2026 at 4:36 PM
hellabarnes.bsky.social
lol I forgot I put this last part in the alt text
a Roman era Fayyum portrait from an Egyptian burial. The very attractive woman, with large eyes and great eyelashes and brows, can call me if she wants to.
August 2, 2026 at 7:13 PM
newberrylibrary.bsky.social
Collection spotlight: The Odyssey! The Newberry has a wealth of materials related to The Odyssey, from ancient papyrus writings to a range of printed copies. Here is a fragment of Homer's Iliad from around the first century CE. (Homer also wrote The Odyssey, of course.)
An image shows papyrus fragments from the Iliad. Text states the fragment is probably from Fayyum, Egypt, with some contemporary annotations in Greek cursive on verso.
July 30, 2026 at 8:22 PM
veliteaquila.bsky.social
Ptolemaic Gladii?
Recently checking the Royal Ontario Museum collection and found two swords, one dated from 300-200 B.C. and one broadly dated from the 1st century B.C. to 1st century A.D., both found in Al-Fayyum (unless I'm mistaken, should be were the famous shield was also found). Any thoughts?
July 29, 2026 at 4:14 PM
daybreak-system.bsky.social
The Alfayyum
Egyptian: yum (lake)
Coptic: p-yum (the lake)
Arabic: al-fayyum (the the lake)
English: the alfayyum (the the the lake)
July 27, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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July 25, 2026 at 2:28 PM
bestpizzaintown.bsky.social
📍 Al Fayyūm, Egypt
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July 11, 2026 at 4:14 PM
laudediron.ca
I recommend the book "Sobek of Shedet" for less of his saucy epithets. www.academia.edu/2624950/Sobe...
Sobek of Shedet. The Crocodile God in the Fayyum in the Dynastic Period
Progetto grafico e impaginazione Laura Adanti © 2010 tau Editrice Via umbria 148/7 -06059 todi (Pg) info@editricetau.com iSBn 978-88-6244-115-5 Proprietà letteraria riservata.
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June 25, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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Wadi al-Hitan: Ägyptens versteinte Wale in der Wüste Fayyum
Im Wadi al-Hitan, dem Wadi Al-Hitan bei Fayyum in Ägypten, liegen uralte Walskelette mitten in der Wüste. Warum dieser UNESCO-Ort Reisende aus Deutschland so tief berührt.
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June 14, 2026 at 3:29 PM
handhyorkshire.bsky.social
🧵The story of Yorkshire’s old Yeomanry cavalry regiments is a tale of social class, regional pride and military evolution. Raised in 1794 during the French Revolutionary Wars, these unique volunteer units were raised by wealthy landowners and manned by local farmers (with their horses) and tradesmen
Imperial War Museum image Q53191, “Patrol on the way to outpost at Hagar Mashguk, S. W. of the Fayyum Oasis, and overlooking the caravan route past Cape Ryan to the Baharia Oasis, where rebel Senussi were at the time. 1916. A Squadron East Riding Yeomanry, 22nd Mounted Brigade.”
June 14, 2026 at 7:21 AM
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Assassin's Creed Origins [040] 🗡️ Quer durch Fayyum
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June 11, 2026 at 3:11 PM
emuehlbe.bsky.social
In a recent book, I argued that the Fayyum portraits are not ancient, but modern objects, created in the 19th century as wonder-machines

I love seeing them at work in the wild
atticusfinch-105.bsky.social Paul @atticusfinch-105.bsky.social · Jun 7
Fayum Mummy Portraits

They come from Roman Egypt, mostly dating from the 1st to 3rd centuries CE.

Painted on wooden panels, many were placed over the faces of mummified bodies, giving the dead an astonishingly life like presence.

#History #HistoryMatters
June 8, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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Assassin's Creed Origins [033] 🗡️ Nahrung für das Fayyum
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June 4, 2026 at 3:31 PM
geofffhughes.bsky.social
By the 13th century, the relatively difficult and low-status work of peasant grain production in Fayyum has now become nearly the exclusive preserve of Muslims. While the poll tax surely played a role in inducing the poorest to convert, this is hundreds of years after its implementation...
May 22, 2026 at 11:30 AM
geofffhughes.bsky.social
It's also indicative to look at those Christians who remained. Al-Nabulusi counts some 1,142 men in Fayyum still paying the poll tax (ie. Christian) out of a total population of 75,000. Yet these men and their families were almost exclusively concentrated in cities and market towns...
May 22, 2026 at 11:27 AM
geofffhughes.bsky.social
Here's an interesting map of Fayyum, an irrigated region of the Nile Delta southwest of Cairo. The peasantry is now organized in segmentary terms, having adopted the names of storied Arab tribes, in ways that map onto the hydrology of the depression and facilitate cooperation:
Map of the tribal makeup of Fayyum as recorded by al-Nabulusi in 1245
May 22, 2026 at 11:16 AM
emuehlbe.bsky.social
Please, please, before you take any of that "we now have Anne Boleyn's real face or maybe it's her mom's" stuff seriously, go read Sonja Drimmer

And before you put that Fayyum portrait on your book/syllabus/conference poster, read this from me:

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Faces in the Crowds: The So-Called Fayyum Portraits and the Aftereffects of Photography | University of California Press
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May 19, 2026 at 2:01 PM
acre-p8.bsky.social
Conservación y presentación del templo de Soknopaiou Nesos.
#Egipto
#Arqueología
Conservation and presentation of Soknopaiou Nesos temple
Soknopaiou Nesos is a settlement north of lake Qarun in the Fayyum. It flourished between the 4th c. BCE and the mid 3rd c. CE.
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May 10, 2026 at 7:01 AM
ebharrington.bsky.social
Looks just like Egyptian burial portraits from El Fayyum.
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May 3, 2026 at 7:11 PM
ppaleoartist.bsky.social
here's this week's #Paleostream flocking results!

this week we drew Epidexipteryx (mine is a juvenile being chased by a Pterorhynchus), Witwatia, Ceratosuchus (the bird behind it is Diatryma), and Prognathodon (mine has caught a young Archelon)
illuminated by an artifical light from below, a juvenile Epidexipteryx makes a daring jump from the tree branch it was resting on to avoid becoming a Pterorhynchus' midnight snack, it uses the membranes that run between its shoulder, across all its fingers, and ending at its elbow to somewhat control its descent, but mainly to cut the impact force from the fall Epidexipteryx is an odd dinosaur from Jurassic Inner Mongolia, China with elongated fingers that may have held membranous webbing between them. there are many debates about whether or not it had these structures, but here i have chosen to depict them being used similarly to a flying frog's webbing (although not as effective) to essentially break the animals fall and allow it to somewhat control its descent rather than fully glide. there is also debate surrounding where the membrane of its relatives starts and stops, here i interpret that the largest portion was between its elbow and third finger rather than its third finger and its body Pterorhynchus is a pterosaur from the same area, it had a long tail as well as an attachment point for a large soft tissue crest from the middle of its snout to the back of its head in a cave illuminated by an artificial light, a Witwatia flies away from the camera. above it are the rest of its colony staring back at the camera Witwatia is an extinct kind of bat from Eocene Al Fayyum, Egypt only known from teeth, however, from the size and morphology of the teeth we can tell it was a large bat and most likely had similar morphology to extant vesper bats in the morning, a Diatryma walks carefully around a drying mudflat looking for food. it does not notice the Ceratosuchus lying in wait in one of the last saturated areas of the mud, its two large horns protruding just behind its exposed eye Ceratosuchus is an extinct alligator from Paleocene Colorado, USA to Eocene Wyoming, USA which possessed distinctive large horns behind its eyes which protruded upwards almost appearing like cat ears Diatryma is a genus of large hebivorous birds (often mixed up with terrorbirds, though they are closer related to waterfowl) which has typically been considered synonymous Gastornis, however, this has been debated in recent literature, here i choose to interpret it as a valid taxon though none of its diagnostic features are pictured a Prognathodon has caught hold of a young Archelon. it crunches down while continuing to swim up due to the inertia from a ventral ambush mere seconds before. the turtle's guts spill out as its shell is slowly crunched under the strong bite of the mosasaur Prognathodon is a genus of large mosasaur from the late Cretaceous near-worldwide with a robust jaw that most species used to crush a large variety of prey. however, it should be noted that Prognathodon has a lot of species within it that may not actually be the direct relatives of the type species P. solvayi, with many not clading together in phylogenetic analyses. here i have depicted it with typical countershading, however, interupted by a metallic yellow strip of scales, the reflectiveness is based on the structure of the fossilised scales from Mosasaurus sevciki, though, colour isnt preserved Archelon is the largest turtle found so far which lived in the Late Cretaceous Pierre Shale in Canada and the USA
May 3, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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Archaeologists excavate temple complex in Egypt’s Fayyum region share.google/0JM3EVulT6Lp...
Archaeologists excavate temple complex in Egypt’s Fayyum region
Work to stabilise and preserve the temple complex at Soknopaiou Nesos, in Egypt’s Fayyum region, has entered a decisive phase, with archaeologists reporting both structural gains and fresh insights in...
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April 25, 2026 at 7:45 PM