From ec6058b097b9e0d25f576e6ca6a4ed95f4815959 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexandros Tsakos Date: Tue, 9 May 2023 17:07:45 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] mix !publish! --- content/article/zellmann.md | 36 +++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/article/zellmann.md b/content/article/zellmann.md index 9600d80..fc6a924 100644 --- a/content/article/zellmann.md +++ b/content/article/zellmann.md @@ -10,10 +10,17 @@ keywords: ["Christian Nubia", "epigraphy", "epitaph", "Greek", "Brooklyn Museum" Among the hundreds of artifacts collected by Dr. Henry J. Anderson (1799--1875) on his travels in the eastern Mediterranean in 1847 is a -small sandstone grave stele, now in the Brooklyn Museum (37.1827E). The +small sandstone grave stele (fis 1 & 2), now in the Brooklyn Museum (37.1827E). The rectangular stone (18.5 cm high × 15 cm wide × 8 cm deep) is inscribed with nine lines of Greek, once rubricated, on a smoothed face, chipped -at lower right. The text gives the epitaph of a woman, Timothea. The +at lower right. The text gives the epitaph of a woman, Timothea. + +![Epitaph of Timothea. Brooklyn Museum accession 37.1827E; ex-New-York Historical Society O.127An. Photography: the author.](../static/images/zellmann/Fig2.jpg "Epitaph of Timothea. Brooklyn Museum accession 37.1827E; ex-New-York Historical Society O.127An. Photography: the author.") + +**~~Figure 1. Epitaph of Timothea. Brooklyn Museum accession 37.1827E; ex-New-York Historical Society O.127An. Photography: the author.~~** + + +The findspot is not recorded, but the dating of her death by an Egyptian month (3 Phaōphi \[1 October\]) points towards Egypt, where Anderson is known to have acquired other antiquities, or a nearby region within @@ -29,16 +36,24 @@ Anderson, professor of mathematics and astronomy at Columbia College Expedition, the occasion for his eastern travels.[^3] Along with nearly 400 other objects, mostly from Egypt---including a mummy, whose public unwrapping was the occasion for lectures delivered by Anderson at the -New-York Historical Society in December 1864 (fig. 1), reported in major +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 (fig. 2) received the inventory number O.127An, reflected in a +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 @@ -64,10 +79,6 @@ 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] -![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 1. 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).~~** - 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 @@ -221,15 +232,6 @@ centers.[^22] # Edition -![Epitaph of Timothea. Brooklyn Museum accession 37.1827E; ex-New-York Historical Society O.127An. Photography: the author.](../static/images/zellmann/Fig2.jpg "Epitaph of Timothea. Brooklyn Museum accession 37.1827E; ex-New-York Historical Society O.127An. Photography: the author.") - -**~~Figure 2. Epitaph of Timothea. Brooklyn Museum accession 37.1827E; ex-New-York Historical Society O.127An. Photography: the author.~~** - - -![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.~~** - Epitaph of Timothea 18.5 cm (h) × 15 cm (w) × 8 cm (d)