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Alexandros Tsakos 12 months ago
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@ -10,10 +10,17 @@ keywords: ["Christian Nubia", "epigraphy", "epitaph", "Greek", "Brooklyn Museum"
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
small sandstone grave stele (fis 1 & 2), now in the Brooklyn Museum (37.1827E). The
rectangular stone (18.5 cm high × 15 cm wide × 8 cm deep) is inscribed
with nine lines of Greek, once rubricated, on a smoothed face, chipped
at lower right. The text gives the epitaph of a woman, Timothea. The
at lower right. The text gives the epitaph of a woman, Timothea.
![Epitaph of Timothea. Brooklyn Museum accession 37.1827E; ex-New-York Historical Society O.127An. Photography: the author.](../static/images/zellmann/Fig2.jpg "Epitaph of Timothea. Brooklyn Museum accession 37.1827E; ex-New-York Historical Society O.127An. Photography: the author.")
**~~Figure 1. Epitaph of Timothea. Brooklyn Museum accession 37.1827E; ex-New-York Historical Society O.127An. Photography: the author.~~**
The
findspot is not recorded, but the dating of her death by an Egyptian
month (3 Phaōphi \[1 October\]) points towards Egypt, where Anderson is
known to have acquired other antiquities, or a nearby region within
@ -29,16 +36,24 @@ Anderson, professor of mathematics and astronomy at Columbia College
Expedition, the occasion for his eastern travels.[^3] Along with nearly
400 other objects, mostly from Egypt---including a mummy, whose public
unwrapping was the occasion for lectures delivered by Anderson at the
New-York Historical Society in December 1864 (fig. 1), reported in major
New-York Historical Society in December 1864 (fig. 2), reported in major
newspapers at the time---,[^4] the stone was donated by Anderson's sons
E. Ellery and Edward H. Anderson to the Society in 1877.[^5]
![New-York Historical Society Lecture on Egypt, 1864: Concluding Lecture by Prof. Henry J. Anderson. Poster. New-York Historical Society Pictorial Archives, RG-5, Series IV, 2NW, Range 12A, Bay B, Drawer 10, F:1. Photography ©New-York Historical Society (http://nyhistory.org).](../static/images/zellmann/Fig1b.jpg "New-York Historical Society Lecture on Egypt, 1864: Concluding Lecture by Prof. Henry J. Anderson. Poster. New-York Historical Society Pictorial Archives, RG-5, Series IV, 2NW, Range 12A, Bay B, Drawer 10, F:1. Photography ©New-York Historical Society (http://nyhistory.org).")
**~~Figure 2. New-York Historical Society Lecture on Egypt, 1864: Concluding Lecture by Prof. Henry J. Anderson. Poster. New-York Historical Society Pictorial Archives, RG-5, Series IV, 2NW, Range 12A, Bay B, Drawer 10, F:1. Photography ©New-York Historical Society (http://nyhistory.org).~~**
There the
stele (fig. 2) received the inventory number O.127An, reflected in a
stele received the inventory number O.127An, reflected in a
label still attached to its back (fig. 3). It may be among the "Four
Stones with Greek inscriptions" mentioned in an unnumbered inventory of
the Anderson gift printed in 1915.[^6]
![Epitaph of Timothea, back side. Photography: the author.](../static/images/zellmann/Fig3.jpg "Epitaph of Timothea, back side. Photography: the author.")
**~~Figure 3. Epitaph of Timothea, back side. Photography: the author.~~**
Anderson himself never published an account of how he came into
possession of this stele or any other antiquities from Egypt or its
vicinity. Other sources, however, firmly establish a visit in late 1847
@ -64,10 +79,6 @@ School Commissioner, left graffiti of his own on ancient monuments in
the same year, establishing that the party visited further Nubian sites
at Abu Simbel and the temple of Kumma.[^8]
![New-York Historical Society Lecture on Egypt, 1864: Concluding Lecture by Prof. Henry J. Anderson. Poster. New-York Historical Society Pictorial Archives, RG-5, Series IV, 2NW, Range 12A, Bay B, Drawer 10, F:1. Photography ©New-York Historical Society (http://nyhistory.org).](../static/images/zellmann/Fig1b.jpg "New-York Historical Society Lecture on Egypt, 1864: Concluding Lecture by Prof. Henry J. Anderson. Poster. New-York Historical Society Pictorial Archives, RG-5, Series IV, 2NW, Range 12A, Bay B, Drawer 10, F:1. Photography ©New-York Historical Society (http://nyhistory.org).")
**~~Figure 1. New-York Historical Society Lecture on Egypt, 1864: Concluding Lecture by Prof. Henry J. Anderson. Poster. New-York Historical Society Pictorial Archives, RG-5, Series IV, 2NW, Range 12A, Bay B, Drawer 10, F:1. Photography ©New-York Historical Society (http://nyhistory.org).~~**
The probable Nubian provenance of the stele may also be compared to that
of the "Skull and piece of a Skull from Nubia" and "Fragments of Temple
@ -221,15 +232,6 @@ centers.[^22]
# Edition
![Epitaph of Timothea. Brooklyn Museum accession 37.1827E; ex-New-York Historical Society O.127An. Photography: the author.](../static/images/zellmann/Fig2.jpg "Epitaph of Timothea. Brooklyn Museum accession 37.1827E; ex-New-York Historical Society O.127An. Photography: the author.")
**~~Figure 2. Epitaph of Timothea. Brooklyn Museum accession 37.1827E; ex-New-York Historical Society O.127An. Photography: the author.~~**
![Epitaph of Timothea, back side. Photography: the author.](../static/images/zellmann/Fig3.jpg "Epitaph of Timothea, back side. Photography: the author.")
**~~Figure 3. Epitaph of Timothea, back side. Photography: the author.~~**
Epitaph of Timothea
18.5 cm (h) × 15 cm (w) × 8 cm (d)

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