BANGANARTI 2006: THE INSCRIPTIONS
BANGANARTI 2006: THE INSCRIPTIONS

Summary/Abstract: The work of the 2006 season carried out by the Polish expedition on the site of Banganarti brought to light 25 wall inscriptions. Of these, 15 were recorded on the walls of the Upper Church and the remaining 10 on the walls of the Lower Church. The inscriptions in the Upper Church are visitors' graffiti, done in a more or less practiced hand using Nubian-type majuscules. In the Lower Church, the inscriptions on the west wall of the western annex (eight items) are all done in black ink by hands using majuscules of a Biblical type. The paleography as well as black ink suggest a literary or subliterary character of the texts but identification is difficult because of the poor state of the preservation of these inscriptions. Of two inscriptions on the east wall of the passage behind the apse one is written in black ink, but is too damaged for anything certain to be said about its contents. Another one is a visitor's graffito. The Lower Church yielded also two fragments of funerary stelae made of local marble and inscribed in Greek.

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