Artefact ID | 771 |
TM ID | - |
Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 15 (al-Baǧawāt) | Class | Textual |
Material | Plaster |
Writing medium | Dipinto, Graffito |
Text content | Subliterary |
Language | Coptic |
Description | Text painted in red-brown, then deeply incised, on a layer of white plaster on the pendentive in the south-west corner. Visitor mark containing an invocation to Christ. |
Selection criteria | Christian terms/formulas/concepts, Coptic language, Archaeological context associated with Christian markers |
Date from | 350 |
Date to | 499 |
Dating criteria | Lycopolitan dialect; indirectly dated by two other dipinti in the same chapel (SEG 38 1697 and SEG 38 1698). |
Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
Archaeological context | Chapel 71 is of a "square domed type" (type 4, Fakhry 1951: 20). |
Accession number | Al-Baǧawāt, in situ (Chapel no. 71 / Roquet, Ghica no. 1.04) |