Drei Bischöfe von Syene namens Joseph. Inschriften, Tonlämpchen und ein Ostrakon

• Authors: Schmidt Stefanie
• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

This paper discusses the documentary evidence of the last three known bishops from Late Antique and early Islamic Syene/Aswan (5th/6th to 8th/9th cent. ad). All three bear the name of Joseph, two of them, Joseph (II) and (III), are known from already published inscriptions. A new bishop, Joseph (I), occurs for the first time in a Greek ostracon from Elephantine, which is edited here for the first time. A bishop Joseph appears, moreover, on a series of pink clay lamps, which were found, among others, in Adulis (modern Eritrea). A lamp mold with the name of a bishop Joseph, excavated by Charles Clermont-Ganneau on Elephantine, permits the allocation of these Joseph-lamps to Syene as well.

Keywords

EN

Syene/Aswan; Elephantine; Deir Anba Hadra; bishops; Late Antiquity; early Islamic period; funerary inscriptions; credit loan; inscribed terracotta lamps; Christian Nubia; Adulis

• Publisher: Fundacja im. Rafała Taubenschlaga
• Journal: The Journal of Juristic Papyrology
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 48
• Pages: 185-205

Dates

published

2018

Contributors

author

Schmidt Stefanie

• Universität Basel Departement Altertumswissenschaften Alte Geschichte Petersgraben 51 4051 Basel Schweiz

Notes

DE

(mit einem Beitrag von Ruth Duttenhöfer)

Identifiers

ISSN

0075–4277