Monday, March 22, 2021

A Coptic tombstone inscription

COPTIC WATCH: Newly discovered Coptic tombstone in Luxor belonged to a child: Study (Nevine El-Aref, Ahram Online).
A preliminary study carried out on the Coptic tombstone recently discovered in Luxor reveals that it belonged to a little girl named "Takla," who died at the age of ten sometime between the 7th and 10th centuries AD.

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The inscription contains five additional damaged lines of Coptic text. Researchers are still deciphering them.

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