Fayyum (oasis)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Gabriel Mckee Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Gabriel Mckee Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Aug 05, 2020 06:36 PM
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History
Large depression (not a true oasis) west of the Nile River containing arable land watered by the flooding of the Nile. Inhabited from the Mesolithic period, the Fayyum contains the earliest evidence of farming in Egypt. The water levels of the Fayyum's lake varied significantly until a land reclamation project during the 12th dynasty implemented artificial water controls. During the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, the Fayyum was administered as the Arsinoite Nome.
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https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/170198552
29.373969796, 30.7432736915
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Faiyum Oasis (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Λίμνη (Limne: Ancient Greek, 304 BC - 30 BC)
- منخفض الفيوم (Munkhafid al-Fayyum: Egyptian Arabic, modern)
- ⲡⲉⲓⲟⲙ (Peiom: Coptic, 304 BC - AD 640)
- Pȝ-ym (Ancient Egyptian, 2010 BC - 30 BC)
- Fayyum (oasis) part of (administrative) Arsinoites/Krokodeilopolites Nomos (332 BC - AD 300)
- Fayyum (oasis) located on Nilus (river) (modern)
- Moeris (lake) part of (physical/topographic) Fayyum (oasis) (unspecified date range)
oasis, region
- See Further:
Pleiades
Gabriel Mckee, 'Fayyum (oasis): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/170198552> [accessed: 25 April 2025]
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