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Artefact ID1348
TM IDTM 105461
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassFunerary element, Textual
MaterialStone
Writing mediumInscription
Text contentSubliterary
LanguageGreek
Description

I.Louvre 110; SEG XLII 1606: Epitaph of Pamin.

Stela made of limestone (H. 26 x W. 21 cm). The top of the stela is ornamented with three serifed crosses, the one in the middle being a large crux ansata, with concentric circles in the upper part (about this archetypal feature, see Bingen 1989: 365-366.

The text reads: "One God. Pamin". For another acclamation on a stela, see I.Louvre 108.

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

Palaeography and typology

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Unknown

Accession number

Paris, Louvre, Département des Antiquités égyptiennes, AF 11891

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Bernand, Etienne. 1992. Inscriptions grecques d'Egypte et Nubie au Musée du Louvre. Paris, no. 110 and pl. 64. 

Additional bibliography).    

• Bingen, Jean. 1989. "Epitaphes chrétiennes grecques d’Hermonthis." Chronique d'Égypte 64, 365-367.  

• 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. 18: 125-126

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1348", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1348
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