Wadi Sarga - Coptic and Greek text edited by W. E. Crum and H. I. Bell with an Introduction by R. Campbell Thompson

Date:
1922
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/66
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Wadi Sarga - Coptic and Greek text edited by W. E. Crum and H. I. Bell with an Introduction by R. Campbell Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ee heal Pat 1 1 ” 5 BG al Convex: “(g,) of 11 = 3 iq Ze Li50, oto: ea (a9) 1 i : teal ae Nae OP Fhe. (Cy) Ol Fad, (0M Siggy OO ap get 4 28. leis’ not certain “that this’ is really, like the preceding texts, a table of fractions (the integral numbers divided in ll. 4 and 5 are higher than elsewhere, and 1. 6 does not very well suit the hypothesis); but on the whole it seems likely. Tlon.[ | TON [ ] “TON [ je ron [ 5 im TON x[ J om Stelae and Graffiti. The inscriptions here selected, as the more legible and interesting, from Mr. CamppeLt THompson’s note-books(1), were copied by him in the church, the houses and the caves of Wadi Sarga. The stelae present the usual problem: are they true grave-stones, or merely commemorative tablets(2)? Their texts would sometimes be appropriate to either purpose, e. g. where date of death is recorded. Mr. CampsBeLL THOMPSON however found them in various chambers on the hillside, quite apart from the cemetery; hence they cannot be regarded as grave stones. | The present arrangement places the stelae first, the fres- coed graffiti afterwards. The two initial invocatory phrases, (1) Such texts are notoriously difficult to copy and my interpretation of the copies is often far from satisfactory. (2) Cf. QuIBELL, Saggara (1912), p. 8. W. DE Bock, Matériaux, p. 78, found stelae built into a church wall. In general no note appears to have been kept by excavators as to the positions in which such stelae were found; and subsequent cataloguers have had therefore to leave this point untouched.