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Łajtar, Adam; Vliet, Jacques van der

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“…(1) Paulos meizoteros commemorated by a Coptic epitaph of Lower Nubian provenance; date unknown; 35 (2) Epephanios (i.e. Epiphanios) meizoteros commemorated by a Greek epitaph of Lower Nubian provenance; date unknown; 36 (3) Ang( )phorou mizoteros commemorated by an epitaph in Greek found in Qasr Ibrim; date unknown; 37 (4) Starophoros, meiz( ), nauarches of Nobades and nau( ) of Seven Lands, commemorated by a Greek epitaph found at Debeira;…”

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Epitaph of Merki Found in Hambukol

Łajtar

2019

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The article off ers editio princeps of a Greek epitaph discovered during the archaeo logical work of the Canadian Mission in Hambukol, a locality situated on the right-hand bank of the Nile, several kilometres to the north of Dongola, the capital of the Christian Nubian Kingdom of Makuria. The epitaph, constructed with the prayer 'God of spirits and all fl esh', is dated to the ninth century on contextual and palaeographic grounds. It commemorates a certain Merki, who, according to the text, followed a splendid career in the state apparatus, which led from notarios to protodomestikos, i.e. the head of the royal offi ce dealing with agriculture and fi scal matters.

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Epitaph of Merki Found in Hambukol

Łajtar

2019

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“… 10 There are about a dozen of them from the so-called Monastery on Kom H and Church BV on the citadel. Only those from the monastery have so far been published: inscription of St--- (Łajtar and Van der Vliet 2017: 30, no. X [DBMNT 3190]) and an anonymous inscription (Łajtar and Van der Vliet 2017: 28–9, no.…”

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“…Only those from the monastery have so far been published: inscription of St--- (Łajtar and Van der Vliet 2017: 30, no. X [DBMNT 3190]) and an anonymous inscription (Łajtar and Van der Vliet 2017: 28–9, no. IX [DBMNT 3189]).…”

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Female diaconate in medieval Nubia: evidence from a wall inscription from Faras

Ochała

2023

Bull. Sch. Orient. Afr. stud.

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This paper offers a re-edition and reinterpretation of a Greek inscription painted on a wall at the Rivergate Church at Faras in medieval Nubia and dated to the thirteenth–fourteenth centuries. This dedicatory prayer is the first evidence for the existence of the female diaconate in the entire Nile Valley. While the close reading of the text in its architectural and art-historical settings allows us to formulate some hypotheses about the functions of Nubian deaconesses, in a broader perspective, the inscription is also a valuable piece of evidence for the high position of Nubian women on the one hand and the “Byzantineness” of Christian Nubian culture on the other.

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“…Likewise, the verb ὁδηγέω occurs in at least two other Nubian epitaphs. The monument of a woman Marianta, dated 1051 (DBMNT 672, from Qasr Ibrim), 39 bears an additional prayer on the rim of the stela that twice uses this very verb in reference to God's guidance of the deceased: the Lord shall guide you onto the waters of life < . .…”

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