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Artefact ID1361
TM IDTM 142341
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialStone
Writing mediumInscription
Text contentSubliterary
LanguageGreek
Description

SEG XLVII 2150: Epitaph of Apollo or Ptolemaios.

Limestone stela (dim. 30 x 15 cm); in the upper part a cross inside a circle. Under it, an inscription that is problematic because some letters were engraved upside down and the syntax is uncertain. Edited as Coptic in Brunsch 1991 but Greek after corrections by Hasitzka and Diethart 1997.

Selection criteriaChristian symbols/gestures/isopsephy
Date from325
Date to499
Dating criteria

Described as "early Byzantine" in SEG 47 2150; dated 325-499 in TM (after W. Clarysse).

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context-
Accession number

Cairo, Coptic Museum K 286

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Brunsch, Wolfgang. 1991. "Bemerkungen zu koptischen und griechischen Inschriften." Orientalia 60, no. 77 (p. 102 with pl. XX).

Additional bibliography

• Chaniotis, A., Pleket, H.W., Stroud, R.S. and Strubbe, J.H.M. 1997. “SEG 47-2149-2150. Egypt. Unknown provenance. Two Christian epitaphs, early Byzantine period.” In Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Current editors: A. T. E. N. Chaniotis Corsten Stavrianopolou Papazarkadas. Consulted online on 01 August 2021.

• Hasitzka, Monika R. M. and Diethart, Johannes M. 1997. Tyche 12, p. 255 no. 245.

• Kamel, Ibrahim. 1987. Coptic funerary stelae. Catalogue général des antiquités du Musée copte Nos. 1-253. Cairo, no. 77 descr.

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1361", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1361
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