Nubica Onomastica Miscellanea I: Notes on and Corrections to Personal Names Found in Inscriptions from Faras

• Authors: Ochała Grzegorz
• Languages of publication: EN FR DE IT

Abstracts

EN

This paper offers corrections and new readings to names found in eleven inscriptions originating from Faras. Inscriptions were discovered at different periods, ranging from the visit of Karl Richard Lepsius in 1844 to the rescue excavation by the Polish archaeological mission of Kazimierz Michałowski in 1961–1964. The material covers different types of sources (epitaphs, visitors’ inscriptions, subscriptions, and an owner’s inscription) in three languages (Greek, Coptic, and Old Nubian) and spans roughly the whole Christian period in Nubia, from the seventh to the fourteenth or even fifteenth centuries. The corrections include both ‘cosmetic’ improvements in reading (e.g. from the form ⲁⲛⲁⲛⲉ to ⲁⲛⲁⲛⲏ) as well as identification of ghost-names (e.g. the highly unusual name Theoria, which is in fact a misreading of Theophil).

Keywords

EN

Christian Nubia; Faras; Greek; Coptic; Old Nubian epigraphy; onomastics; ghost-names

• Publisher: Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN
• Journal: Études et Travaux (Institut des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences)
• Year: 2019
• Volume: XXXII
• Pages: 181-198

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Ochała Grzegorz

• Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw

References

• Adams, W.Y. 1994: Kulubnarti I: The Architectural Remains, Lexington KY
• Adams, W.Y. 2002: Meinarti III: The Late and Terminal Christian Phases, SARS Publication 9, BAR-IS 1072, London
• Brunsch, W. 1991: Bemerkungen zu koptischen und griechischen Inschriften aus Kairo, Orientalia 60, 92–108
• Brunsch, W. 1995: Koptische und griechische Inschriften in Kairo, EVO 18, 65–117
• CIG IV: Curtius, E., Kirchhof, A., Corpus inscriptionum Graecarum IV, Berlin 1856–1859
• DBMNT: www.dbmnt.uw.edu.pl (accessed May 15, 2018)
• Donadoni, S. 1962: I graffiti della chiesa settentrionale, OrAnt 1, 93–97
• Donadoni, S. 1975: Les graffiti de l’église de Sonqi Tino, [in:] Michałowski, K. (Ed.), Nubia. Récentes recherches. Actes du colloque nubiologique international au Musée National de Varsovie, 19–22 juin 1972, Warsaw, 31–39
• Gamber, K. 1983: Zur Liturgie Nubiens. Die Kathedrale von Faras und ihre Wandmalereien, OstkStud 32, 21–35
• Griffith, F.Ll. 1927: Oxford excavations in Nubia (XLIX–LV), AAALiv 14, 57–116
• Jakobielski, S. 1965: Inscriptions chrétiennes, [in:] Michałowski, K. et al., Faras. Fouilles Polonaises 1961–1962, Faras II, Warsaw, 163–201
• Jakobielski, S. 1972: A History of the Bishopric of Pachoras on the Basis of Coptic Inscriptions, Faras III, Warsaw
• Jakobielski, S. 1974: Inscriptions, [in:] Michałowski, K., Jakobielski, S., Faras: Wall Paintings in the Collection of National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw, 277–309
• Junker, H. 1925: Die christliche Grabsteine Nubiens, ZÄS 60, 111–148
• Kamel, I., Girgis, G.D. 1987: Catalogue général des antiquités du Musée copte, nos 1–253: Coptic Funerary Stelae, Cairo
• Kubińska, J. 1974: Inscriptions grecques chrétiennes, Faras IV, Warsaw
• Kubińska, J. 1976a: L’ange Litakskuel en Nubie, Le muséon 89, 451–455
• Kubińska, J. 1976b: Prothesis de la Cathédrale de Faras: Documents et recherches, RAHA 9, 7–37
• Lefebvre, G. 1907: Recueil des inscriptions grecques-chrétiennes d’Égypte, Cairo
• Łajtar, A., Ochała, G. 2015: Two wall inscriptions from the Faras cathedral with lists of people and goods, [in:] Łajtar, A., Ochała, G., Vliet, J. van der (Eds), Nubian Voices II: New Texts and Studies on Christian Nubian Culture, JJP-Suppl. XXVII, Warsaw, 73–102
• Łajtar, A., Ochała, G. 2017: Two private prayers in wall inscriptions in the Faras cathedral, EtudTrav 30, 303–314
• Łajtar, A., Ochała, G. 2018: Kimeliarches, ‘treasurer’: A so-far unidentified office in the Kingdom of Makuria (with notes on several other offices and titles), [in:] Bács, T.A., Bollók, Á., Vida, T. (Eds), Across the Mediterranean – Along the Nile. Studies in Egyptology, Nubiology and Late Antiquity Dedicated to László Török on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday, vol. 2, Budapest, 557–573
• Łajtar, A., Twardecki, A. 2003: Catalogue des inscriptions grecques du Musée National de Varsovie, JJP-Suppl. II, Warsaw
• Łajtar, A., Zielińska, D. 2016: The northern pastophorium of Nubian churches: ideology and function (on the basis of inscriptions and paintings), [in:] Łajtar, A., Obłuski, A., Zych, I. (Eds), Aegyptus et Nubia Christiana. The Włodzimierz Godlewski Jubilee Volume on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday, Warsaw, 435–457
• Michałowski, K., Jakobielski, S. 1974: Faras: Wall Paintings in the Collection of National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw
• Mina, T. 1942: Inscriptions coptes et grecques de Nubie, Cairo
• Monneret de Villard, U. 1933: Le iscrizioni del cimitero di Sakinya (Nubia), Cairo
• Ochała, G. 2017: Nubica onomastica miscellanea II: Notes on and corrections to names found in inscriptions from Sakinya, BSAC 56, 127–138
• Ochała, G. 2018: Nubica onomastica miscellanea III: Notes on and corrections to personal names found in Christian Nubian written sources, JJP XLVIII, 141–184
• Ochała, G. forthcoming: Nubica onomastica miscellanea IV: Notes on and corrections to personal names found in Old Nubian documents from Qasr Ibrim, JJP XLIX
• Pernigotti, S. 1975: Stele cristiane da Sakinya nel Museo di Torino, OrAnt 14, 21–55
• Revillout, E. 1885: Les prières pour les morts dans l’épigraphie égyptienne, RevEg 4, 1–54
• Satzinger, H. 1992: Das altnubische Namenselement - ⲕⲟⲩⲇⲁ: «Diener»?, [in:] Luft, U. (Ed.), The Intellectual Heritage of Egypt. Studies Presented to László Kákosy by Friends and Colleagues on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, StudAeg 14, Budapest, 519–521
• Tibiletti Bruno, M.G. 1964: Iscrizioni Nubiane, Pavia
• Vliet, J. van der 1999: The Church of the Twelve Apostles: The earliest cathedral of Faras?, Orientalia 68/1, 84–97
• Vliet, J. van der 2018: The Church of the Twelve Apostles: The earliest cathedral of Faras?, [in:] Vliet, J. van der, The Christian Epigraphy of Egypt and Nubia, Ed. Dekker, R., VCSS CS1070, Abingdon-New York, 327–339
• Weißbrodt, W. 1905–1906: Ein aegyptischer christlicher Grabstein mit Inschrift aus der griechischen Liturgie im Königlichen Lyceum Hosianum zu Braunsberg und ähnliche Denkmäler in auswärtigen Museen. Teil I, Verzeichnis der Vorlesungen am Königlichen Lyceum Hosianum zu Braunsberg, Winter-Semester 1905/6, 3–26

Identifiers

DOI

10.12775/EtudTrav.32.012