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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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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    these may be. A stele, as 36 for instance, shows that children (or? disciples), while yet alive, added their names to the paternal epitaph(1); or it may be that such names are those of friends or relatives who died subsequently (e.g. in 3o). Or again, as in 35, 44, 45,:40, the text ends with a name probably that of their common dedicator. The graffiti are, as elsewhere, not epi- taphs, but simply invocations, more or less informal: sometimes enclosed in a rough frame, sometimes irregularly scribbled on the plaster, now by one suppliant only (46), now by several (51, 55, 56, 59). It will be seen below that, besides stelae and graffiti, there are instances of inscriptions, both epitaphs (61, 63, 64) and invocations (54, 62), written upon ostraca (2), which may have served as preliminary drafts for the guidance of the stone cutter. They have therefore been inserted in the present section. © 29. + nia@T MNOGHPE M NANA ETOYAB MEN l\woT MIXAHA MEN MT CABPIHA TEMAY ™ 5 APIA NENI(O)TE N---KE OC NENI(O)TE NAMOC TAAOC’ NENIOTE N O6 PMME ANA ANOYN NOG* NENIMT ATA © 10 ~@MAC* MNNGUCN | HY * pArlOoc ANA MAH CGE dp nmeyey |. J NAN oyn nKAce néf Jun NH ABEMNTON MO ea NCOYMNTAGTE MMAPMOYTE * 2H OYIPHNE NTE AN OY TLE] 2AMHN de (1) Or a father adds his after that of his dead son: Christ. Vostok I, 48. (2)°CE CRUM, Osir. “491, -492.