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Artefact ID1350
TM IDTM 105573
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassFunerary element, Textual
MaterialStone
Writing mediumInscription
Text contentSubliterary
LanguageGreek
Description

I.Louvre 106; IGChrEg 784: Epitaph of Hierax and his daughter.
Rectangular stela of limestone depicting two persons, the deceased persons: a father and his daughter. The text reads: "Hierax, 42 years old, and his daughter Tiesis, 5 years old".

Inscription of a pagan type but in the tympanon is inscribed – although quite erased – a crux ansata.

Selection criteriaChristian symbols/gestures/isopsephy
Date from250
Date to450
Dating criteria

Palaeography and typology (see Coquin and Rutschowscaya 1994: 109-110).

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Bought by S. de Ricci in the Fayyum in March 1905 (G. Lefebvre).

Accession number

Paris, Louvre, Département des Antiquités égyptiennes, E 21137 / MG 3638 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Reference edition

• Bernand, Etienne. 1992. Inscriptions grecques d'Egypte et Nubie au Musée du Louvre. Paris, no. 106.

Editio princeps

Lefebvre, Gustave, 1907. Recueil des inscriptions grecques chrétiennes d'Egypte, Paris, suppl. no. 784.

Additional bibliography

• Coquin, René-Georges, Rutschowscaya, Marie-Hélène. 1994. « Les stèles coptes du Département des antiquités égyptiennes du Louvre ». Bulletin de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale 94, p. 107-131 (no. 2: 109-110, 127, fig. 1).

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1350", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1350
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