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Artefact ID1255
TM ID-
Findspot (DEChriM ID)69   (Bilād al-Rūm)
ClassFunerary element, Textual
MaterialStone
Writing mediumInscription
Text contentSubliterary
LanguageGreek
Description

Aldumairy 2007, fig. 55: Stela of Kalimera, "servant of Jesus-Christ", deceased on Pauni 26, indiction 8. The text is incised in the limestone, then painted in red ink, inside a square frame.

Selection criteriaMention of Christian individuals/communities, Christian terms/formulas/concepts, Nomina sacra
Date from300
Date to500
Dating criteria

Palaeography, onomastics and archaeological context.

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Found in the Roman period cemetery (mainly dated 1st-3rd c.) of Bilād al-Rūm during excavations conducted between 1997 and 2003 by the Sīwa Antiquities Inspectorate. Associated with two other Christian steles: ID 1254  and 1256.

Accession number

Siwa Museum, number unknown.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Al-Dumayrī, A. A. 2005. سيوة الماضي والحاضر. Alexandria: Yasso, 145.
• Aldumairy, Abd El-Aziz Abd El-Rahman. 2007. L’Oasis de Siwa d’hier à aujourd’hui. Alexandria: Yasso. fig. 55 and 57.

• El-Demery, A. A., Bagnall, A. S. & Aly, M. A. I. 2021. “Three Christian Gravestones from the Siwa Oasis.” Chronique d’Égypte 96/192: 317-323.

• Ghica, Victor. 2012. “Pour une histoire du christianisme dans le désert Occidental d’Égypte.” Journal des savants 2: 267.

• Ghica, V. & Schram, V. 2023. “Trois stèles funéraires chrétiennes de Bilād al-Rūm, Sīwa (IVe-Ve s.).” Analecta papyrologica 33: 25-55.

Authors
Valérie Schram, Victor Ghica, 2021, 2023
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, Victor Ghica, 2021, 2023, "Artefact ID 1255", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1255
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