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Artefact ID	1450
TM ID	TM 119949
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	44 (al-Iskandariyya)
Class	Textual
Material	Stone
Writing medium	Dipinto, Inscription
Text content	Documentary
Language	Greek
Description	IGChrEg 20: Panel of a Funerary Chapel The inscription reads ΧΣ. ΙΗΣ. Θ. Υ. ΣΩΤΗΡ///// (χ[ριστο]ς. ιη[σου]ς. θ[εου]. υ[ιος]. σωτηρ). Found in a hypogeum, a clearly Christian funerary chapel measuring 3.24 m in length and width, and 4.46 m in height, the inscription is located in the back, opposite the entrance. This back wall was shaped into an apse containing two colored pilasters adorned at the capital with a bundle of uraeus snakes each; the inscription is placed between these two capitals. Above each of the pilasters, a branch of green and red leaves curve towards each other ending in a slender black cross at the top. The empty space below the cross is occupied by a large red pattée cross flanked by two small crosses, underneath which two fish, two regular loaves of bread, a loaf of bread with a cross (panis decussatus), and an adoring human arm are depicted.
Selection criteria	Christian terms/formulas/concepts, Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy, Archaeological context associated with Christian markers
Date from	300
Date to	399
Dating criteria	Palaeography; Archaeology of the find site; Christian context.
Absolute/relative date	Relative date
Archaeological context	Funerary chapel discovered in the north-west of the Necropolis of al-Qabbārī, August 1876. Found alongside IGChrEg 18. The chapel has been destroyed.
Accession number	–

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps
• Lefebvre, Gustave. 1907. Recueil des inscriptions grecques-chrétiennes d’Égypte. Cairo: Imprimerie de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale. 5, No. 20.

Additional bibliography
• Leclercq, Henri. 1924. “Alexandrie (Archéologie).” In Dictionnaire d’archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie 1(1), edited by Ferdinand Cabrol and Henri Leclercq. Paris: Librairie Letouzey & Ané. col. 1008-1182: col. 1151.
• Néroutsos-Bey, Tassos. 1888. L’ancienne Alexandrie. Étude archéologique et topographique. Paris: Leroux. 77-78.

Authors

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2022

Suggested citation

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2022, "Artefact ID 1450", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1450

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External links

TM 119949 PHI – IGChrEg 20 (ed. Lefebvre)

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