IDENTIFIERS
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id:	50739
accession number:	E.127.1903

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 19 November 2015

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Fragment of a grave stone which was then re-used, possibly as an altar or perhaps just a quern stone for grinding. the surface is badly worn. The stone originally belonged to a bishop called Kerikos and uses the Egyptian language of Coptic with a psalm written in Greek (around the rim of the object). The two scripts are similar in appearance; coptic has a few more letters. The island of Sai, where the object was found, was an important administrative centre during the medieval period.
object type: Fragment of a grave stone.
title:	tombstones

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Antiquities

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/50739





TECHNIQUES
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carved

CATEGORIES
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category: stelae
category: cult object

DATING
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creation date:	701 - 800
creation date earliest:	701
creation date latest:	800
culture:	Coptic
culture:	Byzantine


DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: m
value: 0.555

dimension: Width
units: m
value: 0.532



CITATIONS
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[Unknown: JTS 31 (1930)]
Stelae from Egypt and Nubia in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, c. 3000BC - AD1150
La Nubia medioevale
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