| Artefact ID | 717 |
| TM ID | - |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 15 (al-Baǧawāt) | Class | Funerary element, Textual |
| Material | Plaster |
| Writing medium | Dipinto |
| Text content | Subliterary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | Dome of the "Chapel of Peace": Best known chapel called after the allegory of Peace painted as a woman holding a crux ansata in her right hand and a sceptre upright in her left hand as part of the fine decorative program of the dome. Other subjects painted are common biblical or allegorical ones, except one Egyptian subject: Thekla and Paul – Thekla being the only Egyptian Christian saint painted in three different chapels of al-Baǧawāt. Every painted scene has over it a legend painted in white on a red band, written in square angular letters: Adam / Eva; Abraam / Isak / Sara ; Eirene (Peace); Daniel ; Dikaiosyne (Justice); Euche (Prayer); Jakob; Noah (with the Arch); Maria (annunciation scene); Paul / Thekla. The Chapel seems to have been always accessible to visitors who came to look at the paintings of the dome and left many graffiti in Greek, Coptic and Arabic – but always preserving the paintings. |
| Selection criteria | Christian terms/formulas/concepts, Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy, Biblical quote or paraphrase |
| Date from | 300 |
| Date to | 450 |
| Dating criteria | Dated on art historical considerations to 4th, 5th (or 6th c.). More recently Cipriano 2003: 235 suggested the first half of the 5th c. while Bowen 2014 favored 4th c. in comparison with the large church in Kellis. |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | Small Chapel belonging to the square oldest type (Type 4) according to Fakhry's classification. |
| Accession number | Al-Baǧawāt, in situ (Chapel no. 80 / Chapel of Peace). |
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