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Artefact ID1278
TM IDTM 105433
Findspot (DEChriM ID)72   (Ǧazīrat Aswān)
ClassFunerary element, Textual
MaterialStone
Writing mediumInscription
Text contentSubliterary
LanguageGreek
Description

I.Louvre 109; SEG XLII 1558: Funerary stela for a monk.

Fragmentary (broken at all sides) decorated, sandstone stela (h. 24.2 ; w. 14 ; th. 5 cm), with a 4 lines incised inscription. On the first line is the Christian cryptogram ΧΜΓ, the three others bear the name of "Sansnos, monk" (written monochos, for monachos, which is quite common, see O.Kellis 121 or P.Lond. VI 1913).

Under the text is an inscribed sequence showing a staurogram between two palm leaves.  

Selection criteriaMention of Christian individuals/communities, Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy
Date from350
Date to499
Dating criteria

Ed. pr. gives a post quem date of 325 or 350.

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Found in the Chnoubeion (Elephantine) during excavations led by Clermont-Ganneau and J. Clédat in December 1907.

Accession number

Paris, Louvre, Département des Antiquités égyptiennes, AF 10009.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 Editio princeps

• Bernand, Étienne. 1992. Inscriptions grecques d'Égypte et de Nubie au Musée du Louvre. Paris, no. 109: p. 161-162 and pl. 64.

Additional bibliography

• Coquin, René-Georges and Rutschowscaya, Marie-Hélène. 1994. "Les stèles coptes du Département des antiquités égyptiennes du Louvre." Bulletin de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale 94, 107-131 (no. 15, p. 122 and fig. 5).

• Pleket, H.W., Stroud, R.S. and Strubbe, J.H.M. “SEG 42-1558. Elephantine. Epitaph of the monk Sansnos, not before 325/350 A.D.” In Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, current editors: A. T. E. N. Chaniotis Corsten Stavrianopolou Papazarkadas. Consulted online (2021).

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1278", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1278
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