Memorial stela of Cholo

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Carved, painted limestone stela, inscribed in faulty Greek with memorial inscription for a certain Cholo. Coptic period, Esna, c. 6th–7th century CE (University of Memphis Inv. no. 1981.1.38).

Bibliography R.G. Warga, “A Coptic-Greek Stele from Memphis, Tennessee,” Chronique D’Égypte 66/131–132 (1991), 361–363. S. Sauneron and R.G. Coquin, “Catalogue provisiore des stèles funèraires coptes d’Esna,” Livre du Centenaire 1880–1980 (Cairo, 1980), 239–277, text no. 69. M. Cramer, Archäologische und epigraphischer Klassifikation koptischer Denkmäler des Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York und des Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass (Wiesbaden, 1957), text no. 24 (MFA 04.1848).

3D model by J.A. Roberson (2017)