Eine koptische und eine arabische Bauinschrift zwischen Assuan und Kom Ombo
A Coptic and an Arabic building inscription between Aswan and Kom Ombo

Author(s): Tonio Sebastian Richter
Subject(s): Archaeology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Coptic; Arabic epigraphy; Fatimid Egypt; road network
Summary/Abstract: The present article suggests a hypothetical localization and provides a reconstructed text of a Coptic inscription which was seen by Urbain Bouriant on the road along the east bank of the Nile, halfway between Assuan and Kom Ombo. Bouriant edited this inscription twice in the 1890s, presenting it, together with an Arabic inscription that lay underneath, as a bilingual report on roadwork, and dated it to year 409 of Diocletian, resp. 7[3] Hiğri, i.e., AD 693. This article argues that, on the contrary, the two inscriptions are of different and much later date, and commemorate two distinct (albeit similar) events.

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