Coptic Texts from Western Thebes
Coptic Texts from Western Thebes
Recovery and Publication from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present1
The indigenous population quickly noticed travelers' interest in the ancient monuments, and the search of the ruins was on for antiquities that might be sold directly or through dealers in anticas to the tourists. When the Egypt Exploration Fund (EEF) relinquished the concession for Da'yr al-Bahari, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA), New York, acquired it and excavations continued under the direction of Herbert E. Winlock. More than a thousand inscribed pieces were found, but they were not nearly so well preserved as those that Naville salvaged. This suggested to Winlock that they, too, had been found but discarded by Naville, on account of their poor condition. The succeeding decades witnessed the excavation of a series of Christian settlements and monasteries at Western Thebes (Krause 1982; Wilfong 1989). The excavations of the University of Pennsylvania also yielded Coptic ostraca that remain unpublished (Wilfong 1989: 126).
Keywords: Egypt Exploration Fund, Da'yr al-Bahari, antiquities, Herbert E. Winlock, Christian settlements, Western Thebes, Coptic ostraca
Cairo Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .
