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Artefact ID1326
TM ID-
Findspot (DEChriM ID)75   (Wādī Qinā)
ClassTextual
MaterialStone
Writing mediumGraffito
Text contentSubliterary
LanguageGreek
Description

Three lines of an inscription left by a traveller on a rock in Wādī Qinā, reading: "Remember me! Kalokerōs." This graffito encroaches on an earlier, Nabatean, one.

Selection criteriaChristian symbols/gestures/isopsephy
Date from300
Date to400
Dating criteria

Onomastics

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

The graffito is inscribed on a rock on the west side of Wādī Qinā.

Accession number

Wādī Qinā, in situ.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Euting, Julius. 1891. Sinaïtische Inschriften. Berlin: Georg Reimer, p. 83 (no 650).

Additional bibliography

• Ghica, Victor. 2012. "Quelques graffites syriaques, nabatéens, gréco-nord-arabiques et grecs dans la zone minière du Sud-Sinaï." In La zone minière pharaonique du Sud-Sinaï - I (Catalogue complémentaire des inscriptions du Sinaï), ed. P. Tallet, Cairo: Institut français dʼarchéologie orientale, p. 338-339 and ph. 4 and fig. 3.

Authors
Victor Ghica, 2021
Suggested citation
Victor Ghica, 2021, "Artefact ID 1326", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1326
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