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Tablet bearing Coptic inscriptions

Tablet bearing Coptic inscriptions
© BA Antiquities Museum/C. Gerigk

Registration Number(s)
BAAM Serial Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum Number 0334

Inv.Inventory
 (Greco-Roman Museum) 11689

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Epitaph of an Alexandrian monk

Category:
Tomb equipment, gravestones
Date:
Byzantine Period (395-641 CE)
Provenance:
Unknown
Material(s):
Rock, marble
Height:
24.5 cm;
Width:
26 cm
Hall:
Byzantine Antiquities, showcase 24



The information given here is subject to modification/update as a result of ongoing research.

References
  • Zahi Hawass, ed., Bibliotheca Alexandrina: The Archaeology Museum (Cairo: The Supreme Council of Antiquities, 2002): 122-123.
  • Gustave Lefebvre, “Epitaphes de moines alexandrins”, Bulletin de la Société Archéologique d’Alexandrie 8 (1905): 11-19, no. 2.
  • Mona Serry, ed., Bibliotheca Alexandrina: Antiquities Museum, introduction by Ismail Serageldin (Alexandria: Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Antiquities Museum, 2015): 188, 327.

     
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