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stela
Object Type
stela
Museum number
EA604
Description
Rectangular sandstone funerary stela of the monk Georgios; eight lines of Coptic text.
Cultures/periods
Coptic
Abbasid dynasty
Production date
7thC-10thC
Findspot
Found/Acquired:
Egypt
Materials
sandstone
Dimensions
Height:
38 centimetres
Weight:
12 kilograms
Width:
28.50 centimetres
Depth:
6.50 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject
funerary
Curator's comments
from Aswan? (Munier 1931, 266); Bowring acquisition rejected by Bierbrier (1994, 66, pl.12b).
Bibliographic references
Hall 1905 / Coptic and Greek Texts of the Christian Period from Ostraka, Stelae, etc. in the British Museum
(5, pl.6.2)
Bierbrier 1994 / Provenances gained and lost
(66, pl.12b)
(Bowring acquisition rejected.)
Munier 1930 / Les stèles coptes du monastère de Saint-Simeon
(266 (no.6))
(edition and translation, attributed to Aswan on internal evidence)
Hasitzka 1993- / Koptisches Sammelbuch
(178)
Revillout 1885 / Les prières pour les morts dans l’épigraphie égyptienne
(12-13 (no.17))
Tudor 2011 / Christian Funerary Stelae of the Byzantine and Arab Periods from Egypt
Synopsis 1848 / Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
(p.192)
("From the collection of the Earl of Belmore.")
Location
Not on display
Condition
fair (incomplete) - 3 (30)
Associated names
Named in inscription:
Georgios
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Sir John Bowring
Acquisition notes
acquisition rejected by Bierbrier 1994, 66.
Department
Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number
EA604
Registration number
.604
Additional IDs
Miscellaneous number:
BS.604
(Birch Slip Number)
Miscellaneous number:
I.Brit.Mus.Copt. I 6:2
(text edition abbreviation according to Oates et al 2001)
Miscellaneous number:
SB Kopt. I 503
(text edition abbreviation according to Oates et al 2001)