timothea

content/article/zellmann.md

@@ -2,10 +2,12 @@
 title: "'In the Bosoms of Abraham': A Christian Epitaph from Nubia in the
 Brooklyn Museum"
 authors: ["zellmannmichael.md"]
-abstract: An edition of a funerary stela from Nubia, its discovery and epigraphic context is the focus of this article.
-keywords: ["Christian Nubia", "epigraphy"]
+abstract: First edition of a Christian epitaph in Greek of a woman, Timothea, brought by Henry J. Anderson to the United States in 1848 and now in the Brooklyn Museum. Analysis of the form and text of the monument allows its epigraphic context to be reconstructed, as part of a dispersed funerary assemblage of northern Nubia, including a distinctive textual formula wishing the deceased repose in the “bosoms of Abraham.”
+keywords: ["Christian Nubia", "epigraphy", "epitaph", "Greek", "Brooklyn Museum", "Henry J. Anderson", "Abraham", "Timothea"]
 ---
 
+# Introduction: From Nubia to Brooklyn
+
 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
@@ -76,6 +78,8 @@ activity, whether by the dragoman's hammer or subtler instruments. In
 1937 the stele, along with a larger lot, was loaned to the Brooklyn
 Museum and subsequently purchased outright in 1948.
 
+# Epigraphic Context
+
 The formula with which this epitaph opens, ἔνθα κατάκειται "Here lies,"
 can be found in Greek epitaphs across the ancient world. When the focus
 is narrowed to Egypt and its vicinity, the presence of this opening is
@@ -312,6 +316,8 @@ testaments to society in cities like Talmis and Taphis, later ruled from
 elsewhere (Primis, Pakhoras) but retaining a position as urban
 centers.[^22]
 
+# Edition
+
 Epitaph of Timothea
 
 18.5 cm (h) × 15 cm (w) × 8 cm (d)
@@ -324,23 +330,22 @@ Northern Nubia
 
 *Text*
 
-> \+ ἔνθα κατάκε̣ι-
->
-> ται ἡ μακαρία
->
-> Τιμοθέα· ἐτε-
->
-> λεύτησεν
-
-5 μη(νὶ) Φαῶφι : γ
-
-> ἰνδ(ικτιῶνος) ιε : ἀνα-
->
-> παύσῃ αὐτὴ(ν)
->
-> ὁ θ(εὸ)ς εἰς κόλποις
->
-> Ἀβραὰμ ϥ̣\[θ\]
+| | \+ ἔνθα κατάκε̣ι- |
+| |
+| | ται ἡ μακαρία |
+| |
+| | Τιμοθέα· ἐτε- |
+| |
+| | λεύτησεν |
+| 5 | μη(νὶ) Φαῶφι : γ |
+| |
+| | ἰνδ(ικτιῶνος) ιε : ἀνα- |
+| |
+| | παύσῃ αὐτὴ(ν) |
+| |
+| | ὁ θ(εὸ)ς εἰς κόλποις |
+| |
+| | Ἀβραὰμ ϥ̣\[θ\] |
 
 3 τιμ̅ο̅θ̅ε̅α stone \|\| 5 μη stone \|\| 6 ϊνδ ϊε stone \| ανα stone \|\| 7
 αυτη̅ stone \|\| 8 θϲ̅ stone, which is pitted above the preceding

content/author/zellmannmichael.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
-title: Michael Wesley Zellmann-Rohrer
+title: Michael Zellmann-Rohrer
 affiliation: Freie Universität, Berlin
 ---
 
 # Biography
 
-Michawl Wesley Zellmann-Rohrer is a postdoctoral researcher at the ERC Advanced Grant project ZODIAC at the Free Universität, Berlin.
+Michael Zellmann-Rohrer (PhD, Classics and Medieval Studies, Berkeley, 2016) is a researcher at Freie Universität Berlin, focusing on the history of religion, and an editor of the Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum.