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By Alejandro Jimenez-Serrano, Cornelius Pilgrim

This quantity in honour of Mohamed el-Bialy deals 22 contributions by means of his pals and co-workers in appreciation for a few years of precise cooperation in the course of his lengthy occupation in Egyptian Archaeology. The articles care for quite a lot of issues and canopy a time span from prehistory to the Byzantine period. Unpublished gadgets and texts in addition to result of most up-to-date box learn are provided through top students in archaeology, Egyptology, architectural background and non secular stories. the point of interest at the areas of Aswan and old Thebes displays the actual examine pursuits of the honoree and his consistent efforts to guard the archaeological background at those facilities of historic Egyptian civilization.

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Deceased) in the month Pauni 2, of the 5th indiction. 1–2. 16 2. On the basis of the little that is missing in the other lines, the name of the deceased, which starts with a T-, should be a short one consisting of only four letters, but on account of the multiple options it cannot be reconstructed. 3–5. 17 3. 18 3–4. The strokes, which are normally drawn above the numbers (in this case, β and ε in lines 4–5), are strangely placed here over the name of the month (Παυ� ν̣[� ὶ) and the article before the indiction (τῆ[ς).

4–5), 105 (no. g. no. g. adding ἐν or ἐν τῷ before μηνί or leaving it out altogether). Note that one of these stelae (no. 573) also contains the formula μνημεῖον + name. 4. 6 Stela no. 3 (inv. no. 9-45-299-1/3; photograph Swiss Institute Cairo/A. Krause). does not give any hint of the stereotypical formulae usually found in Christian tombstones and it seems likely that we are dealing here with a rare instance of a more individualised text. For these reasons, any reconstruction of the text must remain largely conjectural and suggestions for filling in the lacunae will be left to the discussion in the commentary.

566), 105 (no. 573), 106 (nos 575–576), 107 (no. 578), cf. 105 (no. 570). In the first instance, οὐδεὶς ἀθάνατος is followed by ἐν τῷ βίῳ τούτῳ ‘in this life’, in the others by the more common phrase ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ τούτῳ ‘in this world’ (in various spellings). g. Lefebvre, Recueil des inscriptions grecques-chrétiennes, 39 (no. 4–5), 47 (no. 5), 90 (no. 5–6), etc. org/inscriptions/) yields 24 cases from Egypt, all in the same formula on tombstones. 14 See above n. 8. 5 Stela no. 2 (inv. no. 9-45-299-1/2; photograph Swiss Institute Cairo/A.

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