Exit Bishop Tamer – the Sequel. A New Edition of the Epitaph of Papsine alias Doulista (DBMNT 78)

• Authors: van der Vliet Jacques
• Languages of publication: EN FR DE IT

Abstracts

EN

Re-edition of a twelfth-century epitaph in Greek (Turin, Museo Egizio, Cat. 7142), formerly attributed to a bishop of Faras in Nubia. In addition to presenting a new text, based on autopsy, the article discusses the ownership of the monument and advocates a new understanding of the linguistic and textual form of the epitaph.

Keywords

EN

Nubia; Faras; Greek; bishops; women; alignment; centonisation

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. 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: 217-235

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

van der Vliet Jacques

• Leiden University, Leiden / Radboud University, Nijmegen

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12775/EtudTrav.32.014