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Funerary Stelae and Inscriptions Bibliography

Compiled by Heike Behlmer

Inscriptions
Iconographical and epigraphical classification
Demographical and sociological research
Museum collections and groups of objects
Individual finds or groups of finds

Lower Egypt
Middle Egypt
Upper Egypt
Nubia
Various provenances

Inscriptions

Bernand, Étienne, Inscriptions grecques d'Égypte et de Nubie au Musée du Louvre, Paris 1992.
Brown, S. Kent, "Coptic and Greek Inscriptions from Christian Egypt: A Brief Review", in: Birger A. Pearson and James E. Goehring (eds.), The Roots of Egyptian Christianity. Studies in Antiquity and Christianity, Philadelphia 1986, 26-41.
Jalabert, L. and R. Mouterde, "Inscriptions grecques chrétiennes", Dictionnaire d'Archéologie Chrétienne et de Liturgie 7, Paris 1926, 623-694.
Krause, Martin, "Inscriptions", in: Coptic Encyclopedia 4 (1991), 1290-1299.
Leclerq, H., "Égypte", in: Dictionnaire d'Archéologie Chrétienne et de Liturgie 4.2, Sp. 2486-2521.
Lefebvre, Gustave, Recueil des inscriptions grecques-chrétiennes d'Égypte, Cairo 1907.
Mallon, A., "Copte (Epigraphie)", in: Dictionnaire d'Archéologie Chrétienne et de Liturgie 3.2, Sp. 2819-86.
Pfohl, G., "Grabinschrift I (griechische)", in: Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum 12 (1983), 467-514.

Iconographical and epigraphical classification

Badawy, Alexandre, "L'idéologie et le formulaire païens dans les épitaphes coptes", Bulletin de la Société d'Archéologie Copte 10 (1946), 1-26 (Coptic funerary inscriptions as translations of pagan Greek formulae and mirror of Ancient Egyptian conceptions of the afterlife).
Badawy, Alexandre, La stèle funéraire copte à motif architectural", Bulletin de la Société d'Archéologie Copte 11 (1947), 1-25 (Stelae with an aedicula represent church fassades).
Benigni, Umberto, "Litaniae defunctorum copticae", Bessarione 6 (1899-1900), 106-121 (Text of the litany of death on 11 funerary stelae).
Bongrani, Luisa, "La tipologia dell'"Orante" rappresenta un gesto di preghiera?", Rivista degli Studi Orientali 54 (1980), 299-302 (Orans gesture as ascension to heavenly bliss. Antecedents: raising of the sun disk).
Cramer, Maria, Koptische Inschriften im Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum zu Berlin. Ihre örtliche und zeitliche Einordnung in das Gesamtgebiet koptischer Grabinschriften. Cairo 1949.
Cramer, Maria, Archäologische und epigraphische Klassifikation koptischer Denkmäler des Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, und des Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass., Wiesbaden 1957.
Cramer, Maria, "Texte zur koptischen Totenklage", Aegyptus 19 (1939), 193-209 (integrated into Cramer, Totenklage).
Cramer, Maria, Die Totenklage bei den Kopten. Mit Hinweisen auf die Totenklage im Orient überhaupt, Wien and Leipzig 1941.
Drioton, E., "Portes de l'hadès et portes du paradis", Bulletin de la Société d'Archéologie Copte 9 (1943), 59-78 (Aedicula architecture: development from the entrance to the netherworld to the gates of paradise).
Göttlicher, Arvid, "Schiffe auf koptischen Grabsteinen und ikonographische Parallelen", Antike Welt 15 (1984) 57-60.
Krause, Martin, "Die Formulare der christlichen Grabsteine Nubiens", in: K. Michalowski, Nubia. Récentes recherches. Actes du colloque nubiologique international au Musée National de Varsovie, 19-22 Juin 1972, Warsaw 1975, 76-82.
Krause, Martin, "Inscriptions", in: Coptic Encyclopedia 4 (1991), 1290-1299 (wall inscriptions and stelae: state of research and extensive bibliography).
Krause, Martin, "Das Weiterleben ägyptischer Vorstellungen und Bräuche im koptischen Totenwesen", in: Das römisch-byzantinische Ägypten. Akten des internationalen Symposiums 26.-30. September 1978 in Trier. Aegyptiaca Treverensia 2, Mainz 1983, 85-92.
Lucchesi Palli, Elisabetta, "Eine Gruppe koptischer Stelen und die Herkunft ihrer figürlichen Motive und Ornamente", Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum 24 (1981), 114-130 (classification and dating of stelae with triangular tympanon with decoration [peacocks, eagle]), acroteries with grape/acanthus leaves).
Lüddeckens, Erich, "Die christlichen Grabsteine des koptischen Museums Kairo", in: R. McL. Wilson (ed.), The Future of Coptic Studies, Leiden 1978, 197-202 (history of the Cairo collection, comparison of the formulae of the inscriptions).
Lüddeckens, Erich, "Koptische Grabsteine", in: Peter Nagel (ed.), Graeco-Coptica. Griechen und Kopten im byzantinischen Ägypten, Halle-Wittenberg 1984, 103-110 (stela of one Thomas, archimandrite of Maurage, later bishop of Cairo from 861 CE).
Meinardus, Otto F. A., "Die Sigmaform als Altar-Platte. Grabstele und Klostertisch", Göttinger Miszellen 78 (1984), 55-67.
Parlasca, Klaus, "Eine Gruppe spätantiker Grabreliefs aus Ägypten", in: Cäcilia Fluck et al. (eds.), Divitiae Aegypti. Koptologische und verwandte Studien zu Ehren von Martin Krause, Wiesbaden 1995, 246-251.
Parlasca, Klaus, Rilievi funerari tardoimperiali e paleocopti, XXVIII Corso di Cultura sull'Arte Ravennate e Bizantina, Ravenna: Edizioni del Girasole, 1981, 225-230.
Pelsmaekers, Johnny, "The Coptic Funerary Bird-Stelae. A New Investigation", Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica 13 (1982), 143-184 (catalogue of 63 stelae with bird motif: the "Coptic bird” is the Christian intermediary in the transition of the pagan sun bird [falcon/eagle] to the cross).
Pelsmaekers, Johnny, "Stela", in: Coptic Encyclopedia 7 (1991), 2149-2153.
Pernigotti, Sergio, "Osservazioni sulla tipologia delle stele copte", in: XXVIII Corso di cultura sull'arte ravennate e bizantina, Ravenna 1981, 239-254 (overview with iconographical and topographical classification).
Revillout, E., "Les Prières pour les morts dans l'épigraphie égyptienne", Revue égyptologique 4 (1885), 1-54.
Sobhy Bey, Georges, "Miscellanea", Bulletin de la Société d'Archéologie Copte 5 (1939), 69-80 (Publication of 3 stelae because of their "interesting place names").
Till, Walter, "Die koptischen Grabsteine der ägyptisch-orientalischen Sammlung des Kunsthistorischen Museums in Wien", in: Anzeiger der Phil.-hist. Kl. der ÖAW 13, Wien 1955 (stelae not published in Junker, Ermenne. No. 1 = Till, Inschr. Fitzwilliam; No. 2 = Bergmann, a further six inscriptions).
Zuntz, Dora, "Koptische Grabstelen. Ihre zeitliche und örtliche Einordnung", Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abt. Kairo 2 (1932), 22-38.

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Demographical and sociological research

Behlmer, Heike, "Das Alter im christlichen Ägypten", Hallesche Beiträge zur Orientwissenschaft 26 (1998), 5-25.

Boyaval, Bernard, "La mortalité saisonnière dans l'Égypte gréco-romaine", in: Livre du Centenaire 1880-1980. MIFAO 104, Cairo 1980, 281-286.

Boyaval, Bernard, "Remarques à propos des indications d'âges des étiquettes de momies", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 18 (1973), 49-74.

Boyaval, Bernard, "Remarques sur les indications d'âges de l'épigraphie funéraire grecque d'Égypte", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 21 (1976), 217-243.

Boyaval, Bernard, "Tableau général des indications d'âge de l'Égypte gréco-romaine", Chronique d'Égypte 52 (1977), 345-351.

Janssens, Jos, Vita e morte del cristiano negli epitaffi di Roma anteriori al sec. VII. Analecta Gregoriana 222, Roma 1981.

Shaw, Brent, "The Cultural Meaning of Death: Age and Gender in the Roman Family", in: David I. Kertzer and Richard P. Saller (eds.), The Family in Italy from Antiquity to the Present, New Haven and London 1991, 66-90.

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Publications of museum collections or groups and corpora

Bakry, H. S. K., "Two Coptic Epitaphs", Annales du Service des Antiquités Égyptiennes 55 (1958), 263-266 (2 limestone stelae, 1 from Giza in the Fayumic dialect, 1 in Sahidic, acquired from a dealer).

Biondi, Giacomo, "Inscriptions coptes", Annales du Service des Antiquités Égyptiennes 8 (1907), 77-96, 161-183 (Text and translation of 80 funerary stelae as a Supplement to Crum, Coptic Monuments).

Brunsch, Wolfgang, "Bemerkungen zu koptischen und griechischen Inschriften aus Kairo", Orientalia 60 (1991), 92-108 (cf. the review by Adam Lajtar, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 97, 1993, 227-235).

Brunsch, Wolfgang, "Koptische und griechische Inschriften aus Alexandria", Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 84 (1994), 9-34 (cf. the review by Adam Lajtar, "Die griechischen und koptischen Inschriften im Griechisch-Römischen Museum in Alexandria. Hinweis auf eine neue Veröffentlichung", Journal of Juristic Papyrology 26, 1996, 53-64).

Brunsch, Wolfgang, "Koptische und griechische Inschriften in Kairo", Aegyptus 73 (1993), 127-196 (cf. the reviews by Adam Lajtar, "Weitere Bemerkungen zu griechischen Inschriften aus dem Koptischen Museum in Kairo", Journal of Juristic Papyrology 25, 1995, 67-97 and Sofia Schaten, Göttinger Miszellen 144, 1995, 101-107).

Brunsch, Wolfgang, "Verzeichnis der 1982 aufgenommenen koptischen und griechischen Inschriften aus dem Koptischen Museum in Alt-Kairo", Archiv für Papyrusforschung 38 (1992), 47-60.

Coquin, René-Georges and Guy Wagner, "Stèles grecques et coptes d'Égypte", Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 70 (1970), 161-172 (2 Greek and 8 Coptic stelae, among which 1 pagan from Tell el-Yahudijeh [?], 1 Christian from Akhmim, 5 from the Monastery of Apa Jeremia in Saqqara, 2 from Assiut).

Costigan, G. H., "Two Funerary Coptic Stelae in the Sahidic Dialect", Bulletin de la Société d'Archéologie Copte 6 (1940), 119-121 (stelae of Mena and Eutropia).

Crum, Walter E., Coptic Monuments. Cat. gén. nos. 801-8741, Cairo 1902.

Daressy, G. "Renseignements sur la provenance des stèles coptes du Musée du Caire", Annales du Service des Antiquités Égyptiennes 13 (1914), 266-271 (corrections and additions to the Catalogue Général, classified by provenance, publication of two inscriptions from Erment and one from the Fayum).

Elanskaya, A. J., "Quelques stèles coptes des Musées de Léningrad et de Moscou", Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica 6/7 (1975/76), 215-222 (publication of 3 stelae of the Hermitage, from Assuan, of the priest and monk Moses, 8th cent., of one Apa Moses from the year 795, and of one Matai).

Hall, H., Coptic and Greek Texts of the Christian Period from Ostraca, Stelae, etc., in the British Museum, London 1905.

Jarry, Jacques, "Ensemble de stèles coptes", Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 67 (1969), 233-241 (publication of various Greek and Coptic inscriptions, among which 9 stelae of various provenance, a. o. Fayum, Upper Egypt).

Jernstedt, P. V., Textes coptes de l'Ermitage, Moscow-Leningrad 1959, 163-171.

Kamel, I. and D. G. Girgis, Coptic Funerary Stelae. Catalogue Général des Antiquités du Musée Copte, No. 1-253, Cairo 1987 (cf. the book review by Sofia Schaten, "Bemerkungen zu einer Neuerscheinung", Göttinger Miszellen 119, 1990, 115-117).

Lajtar, Adam, "Minima Epigraphica", Journal of Juristic Papyrology 26 (1996), 65-71 (corrections of the readings of 5 stelae, 2 from Dekhelah [suburb of Alexandria], one of which dating to the year 597, 1 from the Fayum, 1 from Esna, 1 from Edfu).

Lajtar, Adam, "Griechische und koptische Inschriften im Koptischen Museum Kairo: eine Fortsetzung”, Journal of Juristic Papyrology 28 (1998) 25-30.

Lefebvre, Gustave, "Égypte chrétienne I-V", Annales du Service des Antiquités Égyptiennes 9 (1908), 172-183, 10 (1910), 50-65, 260-285, 11 (1911), 238-250, 15 (1915), 11-139 (I: corrections to his Recueil and publication of 5 new Greek inscriptions, 4 from Antinoe, 1 from Akhmim; II: Coptic stelae of one physician Shenute from Der Abu Hennes (?); Greek stelae from Schech Abade and Kalabscha; III: 7 Coptic stelae, 1 from Kom Demou, Fayum, 2 from Deir el-Gebrawi, 4 from Antinoe; 12 Greek stelae, one of which a correction to the Recueil, 1 from El-Gebeli, Fayum, 8 from Antinoe, 3 from Deir el-Gebrawi; IV: 5 Greek-Coptic stelae from Akhmim, 2 Greek, 1 from Abydos of one Apa David, 1 from Antinoe; V: 32 stelae, 16 Coptic inscriptions, 1 of which from Bosra, 15 from Antinoe, 1 dated to the year 620; 16 Greek inscriptions, 14 of which from Antinoe, 1 from Assiut, 1 from Deir el-Moharraq from the year 747).

Lefebvre, Gustave, "Inscriptions chrétiennes du Musée du Caire", Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 3 (1903), 69-95 (publication of 42 Greek and Coptic inscriptions, primarily from Antinoe, bought after the publication of Crum, Coptic Monuments).

Pellegrini, Astorre, "Stele funerarie copte del Museo Archeologico di Firenze", Bessarione 22 (1907), 20-43 (13 stelae, 6 Greek and 7 Coptic).

Touraïeff, B. A., "Épitaphes coptes", in: Mémoires de la Section Orientale de la Société Impériale Russe, 18, St-Pétersbourg 1908, 030-032 (in Russian).

Touraïeff, B. A., "Matériaux pour servir à l'archéologie de l'Égypte chrétienne, 9", in: Travaux du XIe congrès d'Archéologie de Kiev, Bd. II, 1899, 225-246 (in Russian).

Revillout, E., "Mélanges d'épigraphie et de linguistique égyptienne", Mélanges d'archéologie égyptienne 2 (1874), 166-196; 222-239; 3 (1875), 1-55.

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Publications of individual finds or groups of finds

a) Lower Egypt:

Kom Abu Billu

Abd el-Aal, Abd el-Hafeez, Jean-Claude Grenier und Guy Wagner, Stèles funéraires de Kom Abu Bellou, Paris 1985.

Abd el-Aal, Abd el-Hafeez, "The Excavations of Abu Bellou's Mound, Started, January 1979", Annales du Service des Antiquités Égyptiennes 65 (1983), 73-78.

Aly, Z., "More Funerary Stelae from Kôm Abou Bellou", Bulletin de la Société d'Archéologie d'Alexandrie 40 (1953), 101 ff.

Ahmed el-S., J. Bouzek, L. Vidman, New Stelae from the Terenuthis Cemetery in Egypt, Archiv Orientalni 48 (1980), 330-355.

Farid, Shafik, "Preliminary Report on the Excavations of the Antiquities Department at Kôm Abû Billo", Annales du Service des Antiquités Égyptiennes 61 (1973), 21-26.

Gabra, Gawdat, "Bemerkungen zu einer Terenuthis-Stele im Koptischen Museum", Journal of Coptic Studies 2 (1992), 69-78 (publication of a stela of the Coptic Museum; history of research on the group of monuments).

Hawwass, Zaki A., "Preliminary Report on the Excavations at Kom Abou Bellou", Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 7 (1979), 75-87.

Hermann, Alfred, "Die Beter-Stelen von Terenuthis in Ägypten. Zur Vorgeschichte der christlichen Oransdarstellung", Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum 6 (1963), 112-128 (H. sees a particular Egyptian way in the evolution of the orans figure).

Hooper, Finley M., Funerary Stelae from Kom Abou Billou, Ann Arbor 1961.

el-Nassery, S. A. A. und Guy Wagner, "Nouvelles stèles de Kom Abou Bellou", Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 78 (1978), 231-258.

Parlasca, Klaus, "Zur Stellung der Terenuthis-Stelen. Eine Gruppe römischer Grabreliefs aus Ägypten in Berlin", Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abt. Kairo 26 (1970), 172-198 (assigns an early date to the group of monuments).

el-Sawi, Ahmad, Jan Bouzek und Ladislav Vidman, "New Stelae from the Terenouthis Cemetery in Egypt", Archiv Orientalni 48 (1980), 330-355.

Wagner, Guy, "Inscriptions grecques d'Égypte", Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 72 (1972), 139-168 (8 stelae from Terenuthis/Kom Abu Billu).

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b) Middle Egypt:

Varia

Arif, Sobhi Effendi, "Découverte d'une tombe chrétienne près de Samallout", Annales du Service des Antiquités Égyptiennes 7 (1906), 111-113.

Coquin, René-Georges, "Deux stèles funéraires coptes (Louvre E. 27.220 et 27.221)", Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 83 (1985), 101-105 (2 undecorated stelae from the Louvre; 1. Jocob from Temdjeu near Antinoe and his brother Mine, 2. Thousei, from the year 913).

Fenoyl, M. de, "Une inscription funéraire bilingue", Bulletin de la Société d'Archéologie Copte 17 (1964), 57-61 (wall inscription: Greek-Coptic commemorative inscription with cross, wreath and dove from Der Abu Hennes).

Habib, Raouf, "Stèle funéraire copte en dialecte saidique", Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 55 (1955), 57-60 (group stela from Schech Abade [?]).

Munier, Henri, "Résultats épigraphiques des fouilles d'Al-Qarîah bil Dûeîr", Annales du Service des Antiquités Égyptiennes 22 (1922), 49-59 (excavations 1914 near Aphroditopolis: 2 Greek epitaphs, 4 Coptic stelae).

Munier, Henri, "Stèle copte-arabe", Annales du Service des Antiquités Égyptiennes 13 (1914), 285-286 (stela from the year 938 from Ed-Deîr, short Coptic, longer Arabic inscription).

Munier, Henri, "La stèle funéraire du moine Mîna", Annales du Service des Antiquités Égyptiennes 16 (1916), 253-254 (stela from the year 869 of a monk from Babylon; Monastery of Jeremia?).

Fayum/Giza

Leclant, Jean, "Une Stèle à inscription fayoumique dans la collection de l'Institut d'égyptologie de Strasbourg (no. 1687)", Bulletin de la Société d'Archéologie Copte 16 (1962), 183-189 (stela of Hanna from the Fayum with aedicula, cross, incense containers, Fayumic inscription with the formula of Antinoe).

Lefebvre, Gustave, "Deux inscriptions grecques du Fajum", Annales du Service des Antiquités Égyptiennes 21 (1921), 165-168 (second inscription is a pagan dirge for a 20-year-old woman).

Michailidès, G., "Échelle mystique chrétienne dessinée sur lin", Bulletin de la Société d'Archéologie Copte 11 (1947), 87-94 (cross on steps on stelae of the Fayum type).

Munier, Henri, "Stèles coptes du Fayoum", Annales du Service des Antiquités Égyptiennes 23 (1923), 53-58 (4 stelae, barely decorated, Fayumic formula).

Oxyrrhynchos

von Falck, Martin, "Vorüberlegungen zur Datierung einer spätkaiserzeitlichen Denkmalgruppe aus Ägypten - Die Grabreliefs von Behnasa", Bulletin de la Société d'Archéologie Copte 35 (1996), 29-35.

Parlasca, Klaus, "Der Übergang von der spätrömischen zur frühkoptischen Kunst im Lichte der Grabreliefs von Oxyrhynchos", Enchoria 8 Sonderband (1978), 115*-120*.

Schneider, Hans Diederik, Beelden van Behnasa. Egyptische kunst uit de Romeinse keizertijd 1e-3e eeuw na Chr., Zutphen 1982.

Severin, Hans-Georg, "Pseudoprotokoptika", in: Cäcilia Fluck u. a. (eds.), Divitiae Aegypti. Koptologische und verwandte Studien zu Ehren von Martin Krause, Wiesbaden 1995, 289-299.

Saqqara

Wietheger, Cäcilia, Das Jeremias-Kloster zu Saqqara unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Inschriften. Arbeiten zum spätantiken und koptischen Ägypten 1, Altenberge 1992.

Bawit

Engelbach, Reginald, "Coptic Stela of Serne of Damshir", Bulletin de la Société d'Archéologie Copte 3 (193), 6-8 (limestone stela from the vicinity of Bawit).

Engelbach, Reginald, "The Coptic Stelae of Leontce (Leontios)", Annales du Service des Antiquités Égyptiennes 39 (1939), 313-317 (undecorated stela from Bawit).

Antinoe

Munier, Henri, "Stèles chrétiennes d'Antinoe", Aegyptus 29 (1949), 126-136 (postumous publication of 4 Greek and 10 Coptic inscriptions (among which a dirge) from the Italian excavations of 1936; texts by Munier, descriptions of the pieces by Donadoni).

Schaten, Sophia, "Der Grabstein des Phoibammon", Bulletin de la Société d'Archéologie Copte 30 (1991), 113-120 ("dirge" from Dair al-Barsa near Antinoe from the year 706).

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c) Upper Egypt:

Wadi Sarga

Crum, Walter E. and Harold I. Bell, Wadi Sarga. Coptic and Greek Texts from the Excavations Undertaken by the Byzantine Research Account. Copenhagen 1922.

Abydos

Schaten, Sophia, "Zur Bearbeitung der Grabsteine mit Inschriften. Die Grabsteine des Apa Moyses-Klosters in Abydos", in: David W. Johnson (ed.), Acts of the Fifth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Washington, 12-15 August 1992, vol. 2, Rom 1993, 401-410 (9 stelae from the Monastery of Apa Moses, general considerations).

Till, Walter, "Eine koptische Inschrift im Fitzwilliam-Museum", Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 54 (1957), 209-213 (stela of Apa Theodore from El-Baliana from the year 939; a parallel to Vienna 5105).

Edfu

Crum, Walter E., "A 'Scythian' in Egypt", Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 24 (1902), 233-234 (Greek stela of the soldier Rigimer; lower part: Catalogue Général 8633, decoration points to Edfu as provenance).

Roquet, G. "BHN et MN-, morphèmes du vétitif akhmimique dans les épitaphes d'Edfou", Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 78 (1978), 525-532.

Esna

Pelsmaekers, Johnny, "The Funerary Stelae with Crux Ansata from Esna", Bulletin van het Belgisch Historisch Instituut te Rome 57 (1987), 23-29.

Sauneron, Serge and René-Georges Coquin, "Catalogue provisoire des Stèles funéraires coptes d'Esna", in: Jean Vercoutter (ed.), Livre du Centénaire de l'IFAO, Cairo 1980, 239-277.

Assuan

Bouriant, Urbain, "Notice des monuments coptes du Musée de Boulaq", Recueil de Travaux 5 (1884), 60-70 (stelae from the Monastery of St Simeon at Assuan, gathered by Maspero on the cemetery in 1883, text and translation, cf. also Munier).

Clédat, Jean, "Notes d'archéologie copte", Annales du Service des Antiquités Égyptiennes 9 (1909), 213-230 (on pp. 224-229 texts of 17 stelae from the Monastery of St Simeon at Assuan brought to the museum in Cairo).

Munier, Henri, "Les stèles coptes du monastère de Saint-Siméon à Assouan", Aegyptus 11 (1930-31), 257-300, 433-484 (publication of the stelae found by Monneret de Villard in 1925/26 and the finds from the earlier excavations by Maspero [published by Bouriant] and Clédat, and of some pieces from museums and the antiquities trade; a total of 177 pieces).

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d) Nubia:

Cramer, Maria, "Die koptischen Grabsteine aus Unternubien", Zeitschrift für Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 37 (1938), 19-23.

Junker, Hermann, "Die christlichen Grabsteine Nubiens", Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache 60 (1925), 111-148 (description and classification of the Christian funerary monuments from Nubia with Greek and Coptic inscriptions).

Junker, Hermann, Bericht über die Grabungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien auf den Friedhöfen von Ermenne (Nubien) im Winter 1911/12. Denkschriften ÖAW Phil-hist. Kl. 67, Wien and Leipzig 1952.

Kubinska, Jadwiga, "La prière nubienne pour les morts et la question de son origine", in: K. Michalowski, Nubia. Récentes recherches. Actes du colloque nubiologique international au Musée National de Varsovie, 19-22 Juin 1972, Warsaw 1975, 83ff.

Mina, Togo, Inscriptions coptes et grecques de Nubie, Cairo 1942.

Pernigotti, Sergio, "Stele cristiane da Sakinya nel Museo di Torino", Oriens Antiquus 14 (1975), 21-55 (publication of 20 stelae from Sakinya, 8 Greek and 12 Coptic, one of which dating to the year 907).

Tibiletti Bruno, M. G., "Di alcune caratteristiche epigrafi funerarie cristiane della Nubia", Rendiconti dell'Istituto Lombardo 97 (1963), 491-538.

Tibiletti Bruno, M. G., Iscrizioni nubiane, Pavia 1964.

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e) Various Provenances:

Badawy, Alexander, "A Funerary Stela with Coptic Cryptogram(?)", Bibliotheca Orientalis 18 (1961), 17-19.

Bergmann, E. von, "Inschriftliche Denkmäler der Sammlung ägyptischer Alterthümer des Österr. Kaiserhauses", Recueil de Travaux 7 (1886), 177-196 (contains one coptic stela; corrections by v. Lemm, Kopt. Misc. 57).

Costigan, G. H., "A Coptic stela", Annales du Service des Antiquités Égyptiennes 38 (1938), 354 (11 lines on a stelaof Apa Abraham in the shape of a church fassade, Coptic Museum ).

Deiber, Albert, "Notes sur deux documents coptes", Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 3 (1903), 203-211 (one funerary inscription).

Donadoni, Sergio, Un rilievo con santo cavaliere, in: Intellectual Heritage of Egypt (Studies Presented to László Kákosy), Budapest, 1992 (= Studia Aegyptiaca XIV), 117-118.

Engelbach, Reginald, "A Coptic Memorial Tablet to a Young Girl", in: Studies Presented to F. Ll. Griffith, London 1932, 149-151 (dirge of Drosis, similar to Catalogue Général 8703, from the year 786).

Maspero, Gaston, "Sur une stèle copte donnée par M. le capitaine Lyons au Musée du Caire", Annales du Service des Antiquités Égyptiennes 4 (1903), 161-164.

Mina, Togo, "Deux stèles funéraires coptes en dialecte bohairique", Bulletin de la Société d'Archéologie Copte 5 (1939), 81-84 (stelae of a father and a son from the years 912 and 917, almost undecorated).

Munier, Henri, "Remarques sur la stèle copte 11799", Bulletin de la société royale d'Alexandrie 22 (1926), 237-239.

Munier, Henri, "La Sibylle Alexandrine chez les coptes", Bulletin de la Société archéologique d'Alexandrie 20 (1924), 196-201 (discussion of the name 'Ama Sibylla' on 2 stela of the museum in Alexandria).

Schneider, H. D., "The Lamentation of Eulogia - A Coptic Dirge in the Leiden Museum of Antiquities", Oudheidkundige mededelingen uit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden 49/50 (1968/69), 1-7.

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Compiled by Heike Behlmer

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