The Christian epigraphy of Egypt and Nubia / Jacques van der Vliet ; edited by Renate Dekker.
The present book collects 31 articles that Jacques van der Vliet, a leading scholar in the field of Coptic Studies (Leiden University / Radboud University, Nijmegen), has published since 1999 on Christian inscriptions from Egypt and Nubia. These inscriptions are dated between the third/fourth and th...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Preface; List of abbreviations; Part 1: A general introduction; 1 The Christian epigraphy of Egypt and Nubia: State of research and perspectives; Part 2: Egypt; 2 "In a robe of gold": Status, magic and politics on inscribed Christian textiles from Egypt; 3 Christus imperat: An ignored Coptic dating formula; 4 Perennial Hellenism! László Török and the al-Mu'allaqa lintel (Coptic Museum inv. no. 753); 5 History through inscriptions: Coptic epigraphy in the Wadi al-Natrun.
- 6 Reconstructing the landscape: Epigraphic sources for the Christian Fayoum7 Monumenta fayumica; 8 Monuments of Christian Sinnuris (Fayoum, Egypt); 9 Four Christian funerary inscriptions from the Fayoum (I. Dayr al-'Azab 1-4); 10 A lintel from the Fayoum in the British Museum; 11 A Naqlun monk brought home: On the provenance of Louvre inv. E 26798-9; 12 I. Varsovie: Graeco-Coptica; 13 A Coptic funerary stela in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; 14 Snippets from the past: Two ancient sites in the Asyut region: Dayr al-Gabrawi and Dayr al-'Izam.
- 15 Monks and scholars in the Panopolite nome: The epigraphic evidence16 Parerga: Notes on Christian inscriptions from Egypt and Nubia; 17 Epigraphy and history in the Theban region; 18 From Naqada to Esna: A late Coptic inscription at Dayr Mari Girgis (Naqada); 19 "In year one of King Zachari": Evidence of a new Nubian king from the Monastery of St. Simeon at Aswan; 20 Contested frontiers: Southern Egypt and Northern Nubia, a.d. 300-1500. The evidence of the inscriptions; Part 3: Nubia; 21 Coptic as a Nubian literary language: Four theses for discussion.
- 22 Gleanings from Christian Northern Nubia23 Four north-Nubian funerary stelae from the Bankes collection; 24 Churches in Lower Nubia, old and "new"; 25 Two Coptic epitaphs from Qasr Ibrim; 26 The Church of the Twelve Apostles: The earliest Cathedral of Faras; 27 Exit Tamer, bishop of Faras (SB V 8728); 28 Rich ladies of Meinarti and their churches. With an appended list of sources from Christian Nubia containing the expression "having the Church of so-and-so"; 29 From Aswan to Dongola: The epitaph of Bishop Joseph (died a.d. 668)
- 30 Rome
- Meroe
- Berlin: The southernmost Latin inscription rediscovered (CIL III 83)31 "What is man?" The Nubian tradition of Coptic funerary inscriptions; Index.