diff --git a/content/article/zellmann.md b/content/article/zellmann.md index 28b40ed..a381848 100644 --- a/content/article/zellmann.md +++ b/content/article/zellmann.md @@ -29,12 +29,7 @@ monument and the formulary of the text, discussed in detail below, point to Egypt's southern neighbor Nubia in the early medieval period. Comparable stelae are generally assigned to a range between the seventh and ninth centuries CE, and in the absence of an objective date, the -same range must be considered for the Brooklyn epitaph.[^2] - - -![New-York Historical Society Lecture on Egypt, 1864: Concluding Lecture by Prof. Henry J. Anderson. Poster. New-York Historical Society Pictorial Archives, RG-5, Series IV, 2NW, Range 12A, Bay B, Drawer 10, F:1. Photography ©New-York Historical Society (http://nyhistory.org).](../static/images/zellmann/Fig1b.jpg "New-York Historical Society Lecture on Egypt, 1864: Concluding Lecture by Prof. Henry J. Anderson. Poster. New-York Historical Society Pictorial Archives, RG-5, Series IV, 2NW, Range 12A, Bay B, Drawer 10, F:1. Photography ©New-York Historical Society (http://nyhistory.org).") - -**~~Figure 2. New-York Historical Society Lecture on Egypt, 1864: Concluding Lecture by Prof. Henry J. Anderson. Poster. New-York Historical Society Pictorial Archives, RG-5, Series IV, 2NW, Range 12A, Bay B, Drawer 10, F:1. Photography ©New-York Historical Society (http://nyhistory.org).~~** +same range must be considered for the Brooklyn epitaph.[^2] Anderson, professor of mathematics and astronomy at Columbia College (appointed 1825), had served as geologist to the United States Dead Sea @@ -45,12 +40,22 @@ New-York Historical Society in December 1864 (fig. 2), reported in major newspapers at the time---,[^4] the stone was donated by Anderson's sons E. Ellery and Edward H. Anderson to the Society in 1877.[^5] +![New-York Historical Society Lecture on Egypt, 1864: Concluding Lecture by Prof. Henry J. Anderson. Poster. New-York Historical Society Pictorial Archives, RG-5, Series IV, 2NW, Range 12A, Bay B, Drawer 10, F:1. Photography ©New-York Historical Society (http://nyhistory.org).](../static/images/zellmann/Fig1b.jpg "New-York Historical Society Lecture on Egypt, 1864: Concluding Lecture by Prof. Henry J. Anderson. Poster. New-York Historical Society Pictorial Archives, RG-5, Series IV, 2NW, Range 12A, Bay B, Drawer 10, F:1. Photography ©New-York Historical Society (http://nyhistory.org).") + +**~~Figure 2. New-York Historical Society Lecture on Egypt, 1864: Concluding Lecture by Prof. Henry J. Anderson. Poster. New-York Historical Society Pictorial Archives, RG-5, Series IV, 2NW, Range 12A, Bay B, Drawer 10, F:1. Photography ©New-York Historical Society (http://nyhistory.org).~~** + + There the stele received the inventory number O.127An, reflected in a label still attached to its back (fig. 3). It may be among the "Four Stones with Greek inscriptions" mentioned in an unnumbered inventory of the Anderson gift printed in 1915.[^6] + +![Epitaph of Timothea, back side. Photography: the author.](../static/images/zellmann/Fig3.jpg "Epitaph of Timothea, back side. Photography: the author.") + +**~~Figure 3. Epitaph of Timothea, back side. Photography: the author.~~** + Anderson himself never published an account of how he came into possession of this stele or any other antiquities from Egypt or its vicinity. Other sources, however, firmly establish a visit in late 1847 @@ -76,10 +81,6 @@ School Commissioner, left graffiti of his own on ancient monuments in the same year, establishing that the party visited further Nubian sites at Abu Simbel and the temple of Kumma.[^8] -![Epitaph of Timothea, back side. Photography: the author.](../static/images/zellmann/Fig3.jpg "Epitaph of Timothea, back side. Photography: the author.") - -**~~Figure 3. Epitaph of Timothea, back side. Photography: the author.~~** - The probable Nubian provenance of the stele may also be compared to that of the "Skull and piece of a Skull from Nubia" and "Fragments of Temple