Edited sentence: Fayum portraits represent mostly Greek inhabitants of Egypt and are some of the most interesting examples of surviving Greek art in Ancient Egypt.The practice was common and the painters of the Fayum were either Greek residents dating from the Ptolemaic period of the late 4th century B.The surviving paintings are predominantly from the Al Fayyum region in Egypt and were completed during Hellenistic and Roman periods in a province of Egypt which had been settled primarily by Greek colonists, many of whom were soldier-veterans.or those who had inherited the Greek artistic tradition