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Among the hundreds of artifacts collected by Dr. Henry J. Anderson
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(1799--1875) on his travels in the eastern Mediterranean in 1847 is a
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small sandstone grave stele (fis 1 & 2), now in the Brooklyn Museum (37.1827E). The
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small sandstone grave stele (fig. 1), now in the Brooklyn Museum (37.1827E). The
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rectangular stone (18.5 cm high × 15 cm wide × 8 cm deep) is inscribed
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with nine lines of Greek, once rubricated, on a smoothed face, chipped
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at lower right. The text gives the epitaph of a woman, Timothea.
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repose (with ἀναπαύω) in the "bosoms" (ἐν κόλποις and variants) of
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Abraham and, usually, his successor patriarchs Isaac and Jacob.[^12]
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Table 1. Greek epitaphs from northern Nubia with the same formulary as the Brooklyn Museum stele, by provenance. (Names are presented without normalization.)
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| \[\...\][^20] | Liddel, "Greek Inscriptions," pp. 97--8 no. B.2 |
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Table 1. Greek epitaphs from northern Nubia with the same formulary as the Brooklyn Museum stele, by provenance. (Names are presented without normalization.)
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The theological implications of this plural expansion of the "bosom"
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(see further the commentary to line 8 of the edition below) remains to
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Nazianzus produced for the Byzantine emperor Basil I (fig. 4)---as
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sitting in Abraham's lap.
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The publication of the Brooklyn Museum epitaph, besides encouraging the
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continued commemoration of Timothea---an activity that the inclusion of
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a month date in the text was meant to promote---,[^21] offers a small
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