The Christian Epigraphy of Egypt and Nubia

ISBN-13: 9780815354291 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 438 str.

Jacques Van Der Vliet

Opis

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 the fourteenth centuries, and are often written in Coptic and/or Greek, once in Latin, and sometimes (partly) in Arabic, Syriac or Old Nubian. They include inscriptions on tomb stones, walls of religious buildings, tools, vessels, furniture, amulets and even texts on luxury garments.

Spis treści

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 Fayoum  7. Monumenta fayumica  8. Monuments of Christian Sinnuris (Fayyum, Egypt), with Peter Grossmann and Tomasz Derda  9. Four Christian funerary inscriptions from the Fayum (I. Dayr al-‘Azab 1-4), with Tomasz Derda  10. A lintel from the Fayum in the British Museum, with Adeline Jeudy  11. A Naqlun monk brought home. On the provenance of Louvre inv. E 26798-26799  12. I. Varsovie: Graeco-Coptica  13. A Coptic funerary stela in the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal, with Jitse H.F. Dijkstra  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 evidence,
with Sofia Schaten  16. 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),
with Renate Dekker  19. "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  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 Nubia  23. Four north-Nubian stelae from the Bankes collection, with Klaas A. Worp  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’, with Adam Łajtar  29. From Aswan to Dongola: The epitaph of Bishop Joseph (died a.d. 668), with Stefan Jakobielski  30. Rome – Meroe – Berlin. The southernmost Latin inscription rediscovered (CIL III 83), with Adam Łajtar  31. "What is man?" The Nubian tradition of Coptic funerary inscriptions

O autorze

Jacques van der Vliet is an Egyptologist and Copticist, specializing in Coptic, the indigenous language of Christian Egypt, which lives on in the present-day Coptic Orthodox church as its liturgical language. He is interested in the rich Coptic literature from Late Antiquity, including magical, gnostic and hagiographic texts and inscriptions. As a papyrologist and epigrapher, he participates in several fieldwork projects in Egypt and Nubia, and he is involved in the (re-)edition of various kinds of Christian inscriptions from Egypt and Nubia.