Empowering the dead in Christian Nubia : the texts from a medieval funerary complex in Dongola /

Empowering the dead in Christian Nubia : the texts from a medieval funerary complex in Dongola /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Łajtar, Adam, author.
Imprint:Warsaw : University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law and Administration, 2017.
Description:xvi, 359 pages, 19 plates (some folded) : illustrations (some color), map, plans ; 24 cm
Language:English
Ancient Greek
Coptic
Series:Journal of juristic papyrology. Supplement ; v. 32
Journal of juristic papyrology. Supplement ; v. 32.
Subject:
Inscriptions, Greek -- Nubia.
Coptic inscriptions -- Nubia.
Tombs -- Nubia.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Sudan.
Coptic inscriptions.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Inscriptions, Greek.
Tombs.
Makuria (Ancient kingdom)
Africa -- Nubia.
Sudan.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11670330
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Other authors / contributors:Vliet, Jacques van der, 1952- author.
ISBN:8394684823
9788394684822
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English, Includes texts in Greek and Coptic with English translations.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • Introduction
  • Discovery and previous research
  • Scope and outline of the present publication
  • Principles of edition
  • Chapter 1. Context
  • The commemorative complex
  • The inscriptions of the commemorative complex (nos. I-XXXVT)
  • Chapter 2. The Texts from the Burial Vault
  • The scribe and his work
  • West wall
  • 1. Invocation of the Holy Trinity
  • 2. Colophon
  • 3. Charaktêres in a frame
  • 4. Trinitarian formula
  • 5. A series of numerical cryptograms
  • 6. A list of divine names
  • 7. A cross inscribed in a circle
  • 8. Matthew 1:I-2 and 28:20
  • North wall
  • 9. Prayer of the Virgin Mary for warding off evil. Signature of the scribe
  • 10. Sator-square
  • 11. Mark 1:1-2 and 16:20
  • East wall
  • 12. Luke 1:1-4 and 24:53
  • 13. The prayer of Mary before her falling asleep Signature of the scribe
  • 14. List of the Twelve Apostles
  • South wall
  • 15. John 1:1-3 and 21:25
  • 16. The Dormition of the Virgin. Signature of the scribe
  • 17. Sator-square
  • Chapter 3. Text and Space: Stepping Stones Towards an Interpretation
  • 1. The rooms on ground floor level and their interpretation
  • 2. The inscribed burial vault
  • 2.1. The scribe John and his colophon
  • 2.2. Repeating textual and graphic devices
  • 2.3. Visual power and apotropaic symbolism
  • 2.4. The Virgin Mary as central character
  • 2.5. The Dongola vault and the Ethiopian office of the dead
  • 2.6. The Dongola vault and the Makurian office of the dead
  • 2.7. The burial vault as shroud
  • 2.8. The burial vault as virtual funeral liturgy in Ancient Egypt
  • 2.9. The burial vault as virtual funeral liturgy in the Byzantine world
  • 2.10. A written speech act
  • 2.11. The heterotopia of the tomb
  • 2.12. Scribal culture and ritual power in medieval Makuria
  • 3. Summary
  • Indices
  • 1. Names of Christian Nubians
  • 2. Names from the Bible and Christian literature
  • 3. Sacred names (divinity or angels) and names of power
  • 4. Geographical names, ethnics
  • 5. Names of churches and monasteries
  • 6. Elements of dating
  • 7. Greek words
  • 8. Defective Greek words, reading uncertain
  • 9. Coptic words of Egyptian origin
  • 10. Coptic words of non-Egyptian origin
  • 11. Nubian words
  • 12. Defective Nubian words, reading uncertain
  • 13. Symbols
  • 14. Numerical cryptograms
  • 15. Voces magicae
  • Bibliography
  • Figures

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