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Artefact ID1322
TM ID-
Findspot (DEChriM ID)73   (Wādī Ḥaǧǧāǧ)
ClassTextual
MaterialStone
Writing mediumGraffito
Text contentSubliterary
LanguageGreek
Description

I.Wadi Hagga 170: Invocation

Four lines of text in a majuscule mixing angular and round letters. The text reads: "Remember Lord and have mercy upon your servants Petros son of Kyriakos and Aspasia and Stephanos". Initial cross; nomen sacrum; kai abbreviated.

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

Palaeography and onomastics (latest attestation of the name Aspasia in the papyrological record is in 4th c.)

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Rock III/302

Accession number

Wādī Ḥaǧǧāǧ, in situ.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Negev, Avraham. 1977. "The inscriptions of Wadi Haggag, Sinai." Qedem 6, 1-100 (no. 170 with fig. 125).  

Additional bibliography

• 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)").

Authors
Valérie Schram, Victor Ghica, 2021, 2023
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, Victor Ghica, 2021, 2023, "Artefact ID 1322", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1322
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