| Artefact ID | 1351 |
| TM ID | TM 110657 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 79 (Armant) | Class | Funerary element, Textual |
| Material | Stone |
| Writing medium | Inscription |
| Text content | Subliterary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | IGChrEg 418: Epitaph of Pamonthes. Limestone stela (H. 43 x 35 cm) for "Pamonthes, woodworker". Elements of decoration include a shrine inside of which the text is engraved in two lines. Between those two lines, in the middle of the stela, there is an adze (representing the trade of the deceased) between two serifed ansate crosses (with Greek cross inside the upper loops of each of them). In the tympanon, a third crux ansata. |
| Selection criteria | Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy |
| Date from | 300 |
| Date to | 450 |
| Dating criteria | Onomastics, palaeography and typology. Not dated in Crum nor in Lefebvre but W. Clarysse suggested on TM a date between 300-499 because of the name Pamonthes (not attested after 4th c.). |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | Said to come from Hermonthis in Crum 1902. |
| Accession number | Cairo, Coptic Museum 8016 (Previously in Cairo, Egyptian Museum CG 8566). |
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