The Christian epigraphy of Egypt and Nubia / Jacques van der Vliet.
| Author/creator | Vliet, Jacques van der, 1952- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Variorum collected studies series ; CS1070 Collected studies ; CS1070. ^A355371 |
| Contents | Part I: A general introduction. The Christian epigraphy of Egypt and Nubia: state of research and perspectives -- Part 2: Egypt -- "In a robe of gold": status, magic and politics on inscribed Christian textiles from Egypt -- Christus imperat : an ignored Coptic dating formula -- Perennial Hellenism! L©Łszl©đ T©œr©œk and the al-Mu'allaqa lintel (Coptic Museum inv. no. 753) -- History through inscriptions: Coptic epigraphy in the Wadi al-Matrun -- Reconstructing the landscape: epigraphic sources for the Christian Fayoum -- Monumenta Fayumica -- Monuments of Christian Sinnuris (Fayyum, Egypt) / with Peter Grossmann and Tomasz Derda -- Four Christian funerary inscriptions from the Fayum (I. Dayr al-'Azab 1-4) / with Tomasz Derda -- A lintel from the Fayum in the British Museum / with Adeline Jeudy -- A Naqlun monk brought home : on the provenance of Louvre Inv. E 26798-26799 -- I. Varsovie: graeco-coptica -- A Coptic funerary stela in the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal / with Jitse H.F. Dijkstra -- Snippets from the past: two ancient sites in the Asyut region: Dayr al-Gabrawi and Dayr al-'Izam -- Monks and scholars in the Panopolite nome: the epigraphic evidence / with Sofia Schaten -- Parerga. notes on Christian inscriptions from Egypt and Nubia -- Epigraphy and history in the Theban region -- From Naqada to Esna: a late Coptic inscription at Dayr Mari Girgis (Naqada) / with Renate Dekker -- "in year one of king Zachari": evidence of a new Nubian king from the Monastery of St. Simeon at Aswan / with Jitse H.F. Dijkstra -- Contested frontiers: southern Egypt and northern Nubia, A.D. 300-1500. the evidence of the inscriptions -- Nubia. Coptic as a Nubian literary language: four theses for discussion -- Gleanings from Christian northern Nubia -- Four north-Nubian stelae from the Bankes Collection / with Klaas A. Worp -- Churches in Lower Nubia, old and "new" -- Two Coptic epitaphs from Qasr Ibrim -- The Church of the Twelve Apostles: the earliest cathedral of Faras? -- Exit Tamer, Bishop of Faras (SB V 8728) -- 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" / with Adam ¿ajtar -- From Aswan to Dongola: the epitaph of Bishop Joseph (died A.D. 668) / with Stefan Jakobielski -- Rome - Meroe - Berlin. the southernmost Latin inscription rediscovered (CIL III 83) / with Adam ¿ajtar -- "What is man?" the Nubian tradition of Coptic funerary inscriptions. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017053254 |
| ISBN | 9780815354291 (hardback : alk. paper) |