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Artefact ID1320
TM IDTM 880941
Findspot (DEChriM ID)73   (Wādī Ḥaǧǧāǧ)
ClassTextual
MaterialStone
Writing mediumGraffito
Text contentSubliterary
LanguageGreek
Description

I.Wadi Haggag 78; SEG XVI 1657: Invocation

Four lines of an inscription written in a fine round majuscule, reading: "Lord, help your servant Timotheos and his fiancee Olephate" (corrections in Feissel 1976).

Initial Greek cross; Kurie abbreviated as nomen sacrum.

Selection criteriaChristian onomastics, Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy, Nomina sacra
Date from300
Date to499
Dating criteria

Palaeography

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Rock III/210

Accession number

Wādī Ḥaǧǧāǧ, in situ.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editions

• Lifshitz, B. 1974. "Varia Epigraphica." Euphrosyne 6, 39-55 (41, 1)

• Negev, Avraham. 1977. "The inscriptions of Wadi Haggag, Sinai." Qedem 6, 1-100 (no. 78 with fig. 59).  

• Negev, Avraham. 1971. Eretz-Israel 10, 180-187 (184-185, and pl. 64:1).

Additional bibliography

• Feissel, Denis. 1976. "Notes d'épigraphie chrétienne". Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 100: 275-276 (III. Un graffite du Sinaï). 

• Horsley, G. H. R. 1982. New Documents illustrating Early Christianity 2: A Review of the Greek Inscriptions and Papyri published in 1977. Macquarie University: 206-209 ("Pilgrim graffiti in the Sinai (cf. New Docs 1976, 93)").

• Pleket, H.W. and Stroud, R.S. 1976. “SEG 26-1657-1664. Aïla/Eilath (area of; Sinaï). Graffiti.” In Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Current editors: A. T. E. N. Chaniotis Corsten Stavrianopolou Papazarkadas. Consulted online on 19 July 2021 

Authors
Valérie Schram, Victor Ghica, 2021, 2023
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, Victor Ghica, 2021, 2023, "Artefact ID 1320", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1320
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