- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Coptic Ostraca from Hagr Edfu
- 2 Imagining Macedonius, the First Bishop of Philae
- 3 Apa Hadra (Hidra) in the <i>Difnar</i>
- 4 Christianity on Philae
- 5 The Indexing of Manuscripts of the Monastery of the Great Saint Pachomius in Edfu
- 6 The Beginnings of Christianity in Nubia
- 7 A Foreshadowing of the Desert Spirituality in Ancient Nubia and Upper Egypt
- 8 Contested Frontiers: Southern Egypt and Northern Nubia, AD 300–1500
- 9 The Veneration of Saints in Aswan and Nubia
- 10 Dayr al-Kubbaniya
- 11 The Development of the Church at Dayr Anba Hadra
- 12 An Updated Plan of the Church at Dayr Qubbat al-Hawa
- 13 The Christian Wall Paintings from the Temple of Isis at Aswan Revisited
- 14 Monastic Life in Makuria
- 15 Christian Aswan in the Modern Era and the History of Its Cathedral
- 16 The Word and the Flesh
- 17 The Ascension Scene in the Apse of the Church at Dayr Qubbat al-Hawa
- 18 The Nubian Marble Object Preserved in Dayr al-Suryan in Wadi al-Natrun
- 19 The Digital 3D Virtual Reconstruction of the Monastic Church, Qubbat al-Hawa
- 20 Christian Objects in the Aswan and Nubia Museums
- 21 Sources for the Study of Late Antique and Early Medieval Hagr Edfu
- 22 Christianity in Kom Ombo
- 23 Identification of the Monastery of the Nubians in Wadi al-Natrun
- 24 Monneret de Villard (1881–1954) and Nubia
- 25The Conservation of the Mural Paintings of St. Hatre Monastery
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
The Nubian Marble Object Preserved in Dayr al-Suryan in Wadi al-Natrun
The Nubian Marble Object Preserved in Dayr al-Suryan in Wadi al-Natrun
- Chapter:
- (p.213) 18 The Nubian Marble Object Preserved in Dayr al-Suryan in Wadi al-Natrun
- Source:
- Christianity and Monasticism in Aswan and Nubia
- Author(s):
Bishop Martyros
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
There is a tray of white marble on which there are inscriptions in both the Greek and Nubian languages, in the Museum of the Holy Virgin Monastery (Dayr al-Suryan) in Wadi al-Natrun. The name of King Giorgios IV (AD 1131-58), son of King Basil (circa AD 1089) and father of King Moise who was enthroned in the kingdom of Northen Nubia (Noubadia) in AD 1160, is recorded on the tray. The liturgical text on its rims is similar to the Coptic liturgical texts. Some monks of the monastery believe that the tray was used as an altar top. Others believe the tray may have been intended to hold the eulogiae, the unconsecrated loaves of bread, which are distributed to the congregation at the end of the Divine Liturgy (Evelyn-White 1933: 215).
Keywords: Nubian Marble, Dayr al-Suryan, Holy Virgin Monastery, Wadi al-Natrun, Coptic, King Giorgios IV, Bishop Martyros, Hugh Evelyn-White, Francis Crawford Burkitt
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- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Coptic Ostraca from Hagr Edfu
- 2 Imagining Macedonius, the First Bishop of Philae
- 3 Apa Hadra (Hidra) in the <i>Difnar</i>
- 4 Christianity on Philae
- 5 The Indexing of Manuscripts of the Monastery of the Great Saint Pachomius in Edfu
- 6 The Beginnings of Christianity in Nubia
- 7 A Foreshadowing of the Desert Spirituality in Ancient Nubia and Upper Egypt
- 8 Contested Frontiers: Southern Egypt and Northern Nubia, AD 300–1500
- 9 The Veneration of Saints in Aswan and Nubia
- 10 Dayr al-Kubbaniya
- 11 The Development of the Church at Dayr Anba Hadra
- 12 An Updated Plan of the Church at Dayr Qubbat al-Hawa
- 13 The Christian Wall Paintings from the Temple of Isis at Aswan Revisited
- 14 Monastic Life in Makuria
- 15 Christian Aswan in the Modern Era and the History of Its Cathedral
- 16 The Word and the Flesh
- 17 The Ascension Scene in the Apse of the Church at Dayr Qubbat al-Hawa
- 18 The Nubian Marble Object Preserved in Dayr al-Suryan in Wadi al-Natrun
- 19 The Digital 3D Virtual Reconstruction of the Monastic Church, Qubbat al-Hawa
- 20 Christian Objects in the Aswan and Nubia Museums
- 21 Sources for the Study of Late Antique and Early Medieval Hagr Edfu
- 22 Christianity in Kom Ombo
- 23 Identification of the Monastery of the Nubians in Wadi al-Natrun
- 24 Monneret de Villard (1881–1954) and Nubia
- 25The Conservation of the Mural Paintings of St. Hatre Monastery
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
