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Artefact ID1316
TM IDTM 103044
Findspot (DEChriM ID)60   (Atrīb)
ClassTextual
MaterialStone
Writing mediumInscription
Text contentSubliterary
LanguageGreek
Description

SB V 8699: Honorary inscription.

Naos of the 26th dynasty form, with cartouches of Psamtek I and Shabaka, which has subsequently been turned on its side and re-used by Christians for an inscription of twelve lines; letters 3-5 cm high, well-cut (Milne 1905).

The text contains a commemoration – placed under the goodwill of God pantokrator and Christ – of the building of a portico by a town councillor dedicated to the emperors at the occasion of the decennalia.

Duplicate of SB X 10697. (exact same text, only the division of the lines changes).

Selection criteriaChristian terms/formulas/concepts
Date from374
Date to374
Dating criteria

Consulate of Flavius Gratianus Augustus III and Flavius Equitius - Ekytius = 374.

Absolute/relative dateAbsolute date
Archaeological context

Found by Harris in December 1846 in Benha.

Accession number

Boyaval 1966: 362, n. 2 indicates that it is no longer in Cairo but in Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum, Room I (Previously: Cairo, Egyptian Museum CG 9273).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Publications

• Boyaval, Bernard. 1966. "Huit stèles inédites d'Egypte." Chronique d'Égypte 41, 361-363 no. 1 [SB X 10697= duplicate].

• Dittenberger, Wilhelm. 1905. Orientis Graeci Inscriptiones Selectae (OGIS), II, 722 add.

• Lefebvre, Gustave, 1907. Recueil des inscriptions grecques chrétiennes d'Egypte, Paris, no. 64

• Milne, Joseph Grafton. 1905. Greek inscriptions (CGC). Oxford, p. 32, no. 9273.

Additional bibliography

• Rémondon, Roger. 1955. "Problèmes militaires en Egypte et dans l'Empire à la fin du IVe siècle." Revue historique 213, 21-38.

• Woodhead, A.G. 1969. “SEG 24-1194. Athribis (nunc Cairo in Museo Nat). Tetrapylum Imp. Valenti dedicatur, a. 374p.” In Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Current editors: A. T. E. N. Chaniotis Corsten Stavrianopolou Papazarkadas. Consulted online on 16 July.

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1316", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1316
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