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@ -31,11 +31,6 @@ 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).~~**
Anderson, professor of mathematics and astronomy at Columbia College
(appointed 1825), had served as geologist to the United States Dead Sea
Expedition, the occasion for his eastern travels.[^3] Along with nearly
@ -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