When epigraphy meets art history: On St Phoibammon from Abdallah-n Irqi
When epigraphy meets art history: On St Phoibammon from Abdallah-n Irqi

Author(s): Grzegorz Ochała
Subject(s): Archaeology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Abdallah-n Irqi; St. Phoibammon; wall inscriptions; Era of Diocletian; stylistic dating of Nubian wall painting
Summary/Abstract: The article offers a new reading of one of the wall inscriptions discovered during Dutch excavations in the central church of Abdallah-n Irqi. According to the new interpretation, the text includes an annual date, a fact that is extremely important for the dating of not only the text itself, but also of the wall painting (mounted St Phoibammon) it accompanies. In more general terms, the inscription has helped to verify methods for the stylistic dating of Nubian murals.

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