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Artefact ID1334
TM IDTM 120661
Findspot (DEChriM ID)3   (Maʿbad Hībis)
ClassTextual
MaterialStone
Writing mediumGraffito
Text contentSubliterary
LanguageGreek
Description

I.Temple Hibis 41: Visitor's inscription

Graffito on the exterior of the north wall, roughly scratched, reading: "Mouses the good servant of God".

Selection criteriaChristian terms/formulas/concepts, Christian onomastics
Date from350
Date to499
Dating criteria

Dated 5th c. in ed. pr. Similar formulas in Šams al-Dīn should allow considering the end of 4th c. as possible date (see for instance I.Oasis p. 28 no. 6) (see Wagner 1987: 361).

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

North wall of the temple, near the northwest angle.

Accession number

Hibis temple, in situ.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

New edition

• Cruz-Uribe, Eugene. 2008. Hibis Temple Project. Volume 3, The graffiti from the Temple Precinct. San Antonio, Texas. no. 292.

Editio princeps

• White, H.G. Evelyn and Oliver, James H. 1938. The Temple of Hibis in el-Khargeh Oasis. Vol. II: Greek Inscriptions. New York, no. 41.

Additional bibliography

• Chaniotis, A., Corsten, T., Stroud, R.S. and Tybout, R.A. 2008. “SEG 58-1813. Khargeh Oasis. Hibis. Collection of inscriptions.” In Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Current editors: A. T. E. N. Chaniotis Corsten Stavrianopolou Papazarkadas. Consulted online on 20 July 2021.

• Wagner, Guy. 1987. Les oasis d'Égypte. Cairo, p. 361 and n. 3.

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1334", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1334
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