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Stone relief
Fragment of a grave stone.
Fragment of a grave stone which was then re-used, possibly as an altar or perhaps just a quern stone for grinding. the surface is badly worn. The stone originally belonged to a bishop called Kerikos and uses the Egyptian language of Coptic with a psalm written in Greek (around the rim of the object). The two scripts are similar in appearance; coptic has a few more letters. The island of Sai, where the object was found, was an important administrative centre during the medieval period.
Height: 0.555 m
Width: 0.532 m
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1903) by Armbruster, C.H.
Accession number: E.127.1903
Primary reference Number: 50739
Oldadmincategory: SS
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Stone relief" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/50739 Accessed: 2023-03-24 05:27:52
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Accession Number: E.54.1984
Accession Number: GR.6.1888
Accession Number: GR.5.1973
Accession Number: C.644 & A-1991
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