| Artefact ID | 1282 |
| TM ID | TM 701025 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 68 (al-Filusiyya) | Class | Funerary element, Textual |
| Material | Stone |
| Writing medium | Inscription |
| Text content | Subliterary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | SEG LIX 1873: Epitaph of Chara Dahari & Di Segni 2009, no. 1: Anthropomorphic stela of beach-rock of tapering rectangular shape, surmounted by a head (H. 100 cm; W. 40 cm at the top, 29 at the bottom; Th. 12 cm). The letters of the inscription are filled with red paint. They are irregular, but mostly square. A large cross with short transverse bars intersecting the ends of its four arms is incised under the inscription. Variant of the consolatory formula found in the other steles sharing the same provenance – a combination restricted to the northern coast of Sinai (el-Huweinat and el-‘Arish) according to ed.pr.: εὐμοίρει (here only var. εὐτύχει), εὐψύχει, οὐδεὶς ἀθάνατος, “fare thee well, be of good courage, nobody is immortal”, accompanied by the name of the deceased in vocative. Here, εὐτύχι appears for the first time at el-Huweinat: it seemingly stands for the usual εὐμοίρει. |
| Selection criteria | Christian terms/formulas/concepts, Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy |
| Date from | 350 |
| Date to | 499 |
| Dating criteria | Phrasing and palaeography point to 4th-5th c. according to ed. pr. |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | SEG LIX-1873-1882: One of the ten anthropomorphic stelai acquired in the antiquities market in the 1970s by the Israel Museum in (Jerusalem) and the Israel Antiquities Authority; returned to Egypt in 1993; all stelai come from the Byzantine nekropolis at el-Huweinat 2 km south of Ostrakine (east of Lake Sirbonitis = Sbakhat el-Bardawil; northern Sinai). |
| Accession number | Formerly: Jerusalem, Israel Antiquity Authority 4447. Returned to Egypt in 1993 (present location unknown). |
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