Stele

Description

Limestone stele sculptured with a relief representation of the front of a temple, with a Greek inscription on the pediment, dedicated by or to a man called Ammon: Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Latopolis (Esna), Coptic, 7th or 8th century

Museum reference

A.1910.100

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Stele

Date

7th - 8th century

Style / Culture

Coptic

Materials

Limestone

Physical description

Limestone; sculptured with a relief representation of the front of a temple; inscribed pediment

References

The Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh. Guide to the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities (Edinburgh 1920) 32

Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 56.1992.

G. Nachtergael, R.Pintaudi, Aegyptus 86 (2006) [2008] 73-74 n. 3

Liddel, Peter (2023) 'Three More Greek Inscriptions from Egypt in the Collections of National Museums Scotland'. cahaeresearch blog at the University of Manchester https://clahresearch.wordpress.com/2022/06/08/three-more-greek-inscriptions-from-egypt-in-the-collections-of-national-museums-scotland/