4care-artefacts

Artefact ID	1449
TM ID	TM 119947
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	44 (al-Iskandariyya)
Class	Textual
Material	Stone
Writing medium	Dipinto, Inscription
Text content	Documentary
Language	Greek
Description	IGChrEg 18: Panel of a Funerary Chapel The inscription is made up of a drawing of a large, greenish shield, containing ΧΡ ΧΤ (Χρ[ιστου] χ[αρι]τ[ι]) in the top half, and three olive branches in the lower half. To the right, a slender cross pattée features the letters α, Γ, υ, and φ (the meanings of which were not deciphered by Lefebvre 1907) between its arms. Found in a hygogeum, a clearly Christian funerary chapel measuring 3.24 m in length and width, and 4.46 m in height, the inscription is located on the wall to the right side. Below the drawing, at the bottom of the wall, a loculus cut into the rock is marked by an inscription above it as “for sale” (ΑΠΡΑΤΟϹ, «not yet bought»).
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 20. The chapel has been destroyed.
Accession number	–

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