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Artefact ID771
TM ID-
Findspot (DEChriM ID)15   (al-Baǧawāt)
ClassTextual
MaterialPlaster
Writing mediumDipinto, Graffito
Text contentSubliterary
LanguageCoptic
Description

Text painted in red-brown, then deeply incised, on a layer of white plaster on the pendentive in the south-west corner.

Visitor mark containing an invocation to Christ.

Selection criteriaChristian terms/formulas/concepts, Coptic language, Archaeological context associated with Christian markers
Date from350
Date to499
Dating criteria

Lycopolitan dialect; indirectly dated by two other dipinti in the same chapel (SEG 38 1697 and SEG 38 1698).

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Chapel 71 is of a "square domed type" (type 4, Fakhry 1951: 20).

Accession number

Al-Baǧawāt, in situ (Chapel no. 71 / Roquet, Ghica no. 1.04)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Roquet, Gérard. 1976. "Les Graffites coptes de Bagawat (Oasis de Kharga). Remarques préliminaires." Bulletin de la Société française d'Égyptologie 76: 25-48.
• Roquet, Gérard and Victor Ghica. Bagawat. Inscriptions pariétales et graffites coptes et copto-grecs. Mémoires publiés par les membres de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale, Cairo: Ifao (forthcoming).

Authors
Victor Ghica, 2021
Suggested citation
Victor Ghica, 2021, "Artefact ID 771", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/771
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