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@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ Northern Nubia
| | Ἀβραὰμ ϥ̣\[θ\] |
3 τιμ̅ο̅θ̅ε̅α stone \|\| 5 μη stone \|\| 6 ϊνδ ϊε stone \| ανα stone \|\| 7
3 τιμ̅ο̅θε̅α stone \|\| 5 μη stone \|\| 6 ϊνδ<sub>/</sub> ϊε stone \| ανα stone \|\| 7
αυτη̅ stone \|\| 8 θϲ̅ stone, which is pitted above the preceding
*omikron* (probably a chance mark, not a diacritic) \| κολποιϲ stone;
read ἐν κόλποις or εἰς κόλπους
@ -267,14 +267,14 @@ Abraham, 99 (=amen).
*Commentary*
3 Τιμοθέα (τιμ̅ο̅θ̅ε̅α on the stone). Overlining of personal names is
3 Τιμοθέα (τιμ̅ο̅θε̅α on the stone). Overlining of personal names is
occasionally found in epitaphs: Nikea (Νικεα, an apparent nominative in
what should be the genitive of a female name) in *I.Chr. Egypte* 627
from northern Nubia (Talmis), and Deidō (in the genitive Δειδους) in
*I.Chr. Egypte* 525 from southern Egypt (Hermonthis?). Neither of these
instances could have been conflated with a *nomen sacrum*, which might
otherwise have influenced the scribal practice here (cf. θϲ̅ for θ(εό)ς
in 8 below), that is, overlining θ̅ε̅ as if θ(ε)έ, then extending the
in 8 below), that is, overlining θε̅ as if θ(ε)έ, then extending the
overline to the left.
This is the first instance of the name Timothea in published texts from
@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ which was later brought to Cairo (Monneret de Villard, *Nubia
medioevale*, p. 41, lines 3--4: read Τικετη ἐτελεύτησεν in place of τικε
τη ετελευτηϲ εν); and likely a sandstone funerary cross from Ghazali
(*I.Khartoum Greek* 45: \[ἐ\]τελεύ̣\[τησεν\] probably to be restored in
line 5 with the editor \[accepted also in *I.Ghazali* 210\]\]).
line 5 with the editor \[accepted also in *I.Ghazali* 210\]).
Corruptions, in ancient or modern copying, could also be suspected in
two cases from Taphis (Ginari): of επη (sic: ἐ⟨τελευτ⟩ή⟨σεν⟩?) in the
corresponding place in Firth 124, and of the confused