Karanis"Karanis (Koinē Greek: Καρανίς), located in what is now Kom Oshim, was an agricultural town in the Ptolemaic Kingdom,located in the northeast corner of the Faiyum. "It was one of a number of towns established in the Arsinoite nome under Ptolemy II Philadelphus as part of a scheme to settle Greek mercenaries among the Egyptians and to exploit the potential fertile Fayum basin"." - (en.wikipedia.org 22.09.2020) Faiyum Governorate