- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 New Ostraca from Thebes
- 2. Coptic Textual Finds from the Macquarie University Excavations at Dra Abu Al-naga (TT233)
- 3 Encomium on Pesynthios of Coptos
- 4 The ‘Coptic Gnostic Library of Nag Hammadi’ and the Faw Qibli Excavations
- 5 Once More: Nabis, Bishop of ′Aidhab/Berenike<sup>1</sup>
- 6 The Life and Miracles of Abraham of Farshut Community Disaster and the Making of a Saint
- 7 Coptic Texts from Western Thebes
- 8. Pachomius as Reflected in the <i>Difnar</i>
- 9 Christianity in Dandara and Medamud
- 10 Esna Martyrs
- 11 Indexing of Manuscripts for the Churches of Naqada and Qus
- 12 Coptic Legal Documents, with Special Reference to the Theban Area
- 13 Notes On Coptic and Arabic Manuscripts Related to Upper Egypt
- 14 Epigraphy and History in the Theban Region
- 15 The Arabic <i>Lives</i> of St. Pachomius<sup>1</sup>
- 16 Athanasius of Qus and His Time
- 17 The Hermitages in the Desert of Esna
- 18 Some Coptic Reliefs Purportedly from Coptos
- 19 The Portrait of Apa Abraham of Hermonthis
- 20 The Esna Monasteries: Dayr al-Shuhada and Dayr al-Fakhuri
- 21 The Coptic Monasteries Multi-media Database Project
- 22 Excavating Christian Western Thebes: A History<sup>1</sup>
- 23 The Monasteries of Naqada
- 24 Tell Al-Qubeba: An Unknown Monastic Site?
- 25 How to Save the Wall Paintings of Dayr al-Shuhada and Dayr al-Fakhuri
- Bibliography
Some Coptic Reliefs Purportedly from Coptos
Some Coptic Reliefs Purportedly from Coptos
- Chapter:
- (p.201) 18 Some Coptic Reliefs Purportedly from Coptos
- Source:
- Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt
- Author(s):
Gawdat Gabra
Hany N. Takla
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
Adolphe Reinach and Raymond Weill bought several objects in Cairo from the antiquities dealer Michel Casira, who said they came from Coptos. They were drawn to the site by the remains of Ptolemaic and Roman architecture which Petrie had explored some fifteen years previously (Petrie 1896). These attested to the importance of the city in Hellenistic and Roman times, the era of Reinach's specialization. On arrival in Cairo, archaeologists not only paid the obligatory call at the Service des antiquités to pick up their permits to excavate, but also made the rounds of the dealers who were officially authorized by license. Reinach's trust in the Coptos provenance that Casira provided for the pieces he sold in 1910 was based on two factors. Weill and Reinach bought Coptic-style funerary stelae at Coptos.
Keywords: antiquities, Adolphe Reinach, Raymond Weill, Petrie, antiquités, stelae, Coptos, Michel Casira
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 New Ostraca from Thebes
- 2. Coptic Textual Finds from the Macquarie University Excavations at Dra Abu Al-naga (TT233)
- 3 Encomium on Pesynthios of Coptos
- 4 The ‘Coptic Gnostic Library of Nag Hammadi’ and the Faw Qibli Excavations
- 5 Once More: Nabis, Bishop of ′Aidhab/Berenike<sup>1</sup>
- 6 The Life and Miracles of Abraham of Farshut Community Disaster and the Making of a Saint
- 7 Coptic Texts from Western Thebes
- 8. Pachomius as Reflected in the <i>Difnar</i>
- 9 Christianity in Dandara and Medamud
- 10 Esna Martyrs
- 11 Indexing of Manuscripts for the Churches of Naqada and Qus
- 12 Coptic Legal Documents, with Special Reference to the Theban Area
- 13 Notes On Coptic and Arabic Manuscripts Related to Upper Egypt
- 14 Epigraphy and History in the Theban Region
- 15 The Arabic <i>Lives</i> of St. Pachomius<sup>1</sup>
- 16 Athanasius of Qus and His Time
- 17 The Hermitages in the Desert of Esna
- 18 Some Coptic Reliefs Purportedly from Coptos
- 19 The Portrait of Apa Abraham of Hermonthis
- 20 The Esna Monasteries: Dayr al-Shuhada and Dayr al-Fakhuri
- 21 The Coptic Monasteries Multi-media Database Project
- 22 Excavating Christian Western Thebes: A History<sup>1</sup>
- 23 The Monasteries of Naqada
- 24 Tell Al-Qubeba: An Unknown Monastic Site?
- 25 How to Save the Wall Paintings of Dayr al-Shuhada and Dayr al-Fakhuri
- Bibliography
