Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Pieter W. van der Horst)
Adam Lajtar, Jacques van der Vliet, Qasr Ibrim: The Greek and Coptic Inscriptions (Journal of Juristic Papyrology Supplement XIII). Warsaw: University of Warsaw Press, 2010.
Exerpt:
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Egypt Exploration Society The Egypt Exploration Society’s new title, Qasr Ibrim: The Textiles from the Cathedral Cemetery by Elisabeth Grace Crowfoot is now available to order. Elisabeth Grace Crowfoot is an expert on ancient textiles and in 1976...
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http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/774/he1.htm Article on the Al Ahram Weekly site about why the Nubia Museum is visited so infrequently by tourists: "The loss of Nubia was one of the world's great tragedies. Not only did it mean the inundation of an...
Egypt
Book Review: Qasr Ibrim - The Greek and Coptic Inscriptions
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Pieter W. van der Horst)
Adam Lajtar, Jacques van der Vliet, Qasr Ibrim: The Greek and Coptic Inscriptions (Journal of Juristic Papyrology Supplement XIII). Warsaw: University of Warsaw Press, 2010.
Exerpt:
Qasr Ibrim is an archaeological site in the southern area of Egypt (between Aswan and Abu Simbel) that in antiquity and the Middle Ages was part of Nubia. In the sixth century CE, Nubia converted to Christianity and remained a country with a rich Christian culture till the fourteenth century when it was forced to accept Islam. The town of Qasr Ibrim had a cathedral, several churches, monasteries, and other buildings. Excavations have been going on there since the beginning of the previous century and these have yielded, inter alia, quite a number of inscriptions, both in Greek and in Coptic, not all of which have been published so far. The Polish epigraphist Lajtar and the Dutch Egyptologist Van der Vliet now present in this volume almost one hundred Christian inscriptions discovered during archaeological field work of the Egypt Exploration Society at Qasr Ibrim since 1963. All inscriptions are described in detail (in most cases with photos added), transcribed, translated, and commented upon. Since both editors have much experience in this field, they do an excellent job.
- New Book: Qasr Ibrim: The Textiles From The Cathedral Cemetery
Egypt Exploration Society The Egypt Exploration Society’s new title, Qasr Ibrim: The Textiles from the Cathedral Cemetery by Elisabeth Grace Crowfoot is now available to order. Elisabeth Grace Crowfoot is an expert on ancient textiles and in 1976...
- New Ees Publications
Egypt Exploration Society The Society has just released four new publications. They can all be purchased through The Society Bookshop. I'll have Ian Shaw's book on my Christmas list! Fred Aldsworth. Qasr Ibrim. The Cathedral Church EES Excavation...
- Interviews
Pamela Rose's Quest to Save a Dark Age Settlement in Qasr Ibrim, Nubia Heritage-Key (with photos) Owen Jarus Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 3,000 year old site in Nubia that dates to an ancient 'Dark Age' - a time when the...
- Daily Photo - Qasr Ibrim
Qasr Ibrim (Per-Mit/Premis) is the only site above water level that actually remains in its original location. It was fomerly located on a tall headland, which now forms a small island (it takes quite a leap of the imagination to visualize the island...
- Misplaced Museum
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/774/he1.htm Article on the Al Ahram Weekly site about why the Nubia Museum is visited so infrequently by tourists: "The loss of Nubia was one of the world's great tragedies. Not only did it mean the inundation of an...