Delivery mode

AHIS260 will be delivered both face-to-face and online to distance students.

Lecture times and locations

The unit will be taught both internally and to distance students. For internal students, it will be taught every Wednesday from 3-5 pm and 5-6 pm. The venue is C5A 307.

For current updates, lecture times and classrooms please consult the MQ Timetables website: https://timetables.mq.edu.au/Scientia/Web/index.html.

Completion of the unit

In order to complete the unit all assessments must be submitted and an overall mark of 50% or above is required. 

Technology used and required

PC and Internet access are required. Basic computer skills (e.g. Internet browsing) and skills in word processing are also a requirement. Please consult the Course Convenor for any further, more specific requirements.

Required and recommended resources

The unit materials consist of four parts:

·       Readings

·       Audio Recordings

·       Website

·       E-reserve

Readings

There is no comprehensive and accessible English-language textbook which covers the entire field of Coptic art and archaeology. Those who wish to purchase a book related to the topics dealt with in this course can chose the following one:

·       Roger S. Bagnall and Dominic W. Rathbone, Egypt From Alexander to the Copts - An Archaeological and Historical Guide, London: The British Museum Press 2004. (also available in a US edition: Egypt: from Alexander to the early Christians: an archaeological and historical guide, Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004)

This book contains an overview of all the archaeological sites of Egypt from the Ptolemaic, Roman and Christian period, and contains brief description of the important sites from the Christian era drawing both on archaeological and literary sources.

Because many of the sites discussed in this book are monastic, it will also be a useful investment for students intending to enrol in AHIS360 Monasticism in Egypt.

The absence of the textbooks will be supplemented by readings from books, journals, and encyclopedias. These will be available either on e-reserve (see below), freely on the web or through the subscriptions to electronic journals and other electronic resources Macquarie University Library has entered into and which students can access from their own computers. Readings not accessible via these avenues of access are available in the collection of materials students will be able to download from the electronic reserve part of the unit’s website (see below “Accessing the unit on-line”).

Audio Recordings

There will also be a set of audio recordings sent out to distance students. These recordings contain the lectures given each week on campus. They will also be provided as iLeactures in digital form on the unit website (Echo 360).

For any question relating to the distribution of the recordings refer to the Student Handbook provided to you by the Centre for Open Education.

Website

The website (see the next section) will be

·   a privileged means of communication both for the students and the lecturers and among the students themselves. This is especially important for distance students;

·    a way to provide information and materials to students quickly and accessibly;

·    the tool for the submission and retrieval of assignments.

E-reserve

The electronic materials for this unit placed on e-reserve can be accessed directly from the reserve page of Macquarie University Library at:

http://www.library.mq.edu.au/reserve/

Just enter the unit code (AHIS260).

Unit webpage

·       Accessing the website

·       Contents of the website

o   Typing Coptic or Greek

·       Technical Help

o   Macquarie University Library

o   Centre for Open Education

Accessing the website

There are different ways in which to access the unit and the electronic resources it contains:

For an online guide to using the website, see: http://www.mq.edu.au/iLearn/student_info/getting_started.htm  

For all login varieties you will need your Macquarie Student ID number and your myMQ student portal password (see https://ilearn.mq.edu.au/login/MQ/).

The iLearn page of this unit is available at the url indicated above: https://ilearn.mq.edu.au/login/MQ/. Login directly to the units accessible to you

Contents of the Website

Some of the tools provided on the website are:

·       A discussion tool, where all students enrolled in this unit can post questions to the group and participate in the compulsory online tutorial discussions. The conveners will check the discussion tool at least twice a week to post new materials, follow the threads of the discussion etc. Please remember to post questions as soon as they occur to you – do not put them all off until the last week before the essay is due!

·       An e-mail tool, which will be used for one-to-one communication between students and lecturers. Please e-mail your questions via this mail tool rather than sending it to my usual office e-mail. This will make it easier to keep track of the mail which belongs to this particular unit only.

·       The “Echo 360” tool from which you can listen to or download the audio recordings of the face-to-face teaching.

·       This study guide will also be provided on the website (on top of the webpage of the unit).

·       An assignments tool where you can submit your essay electronically.

Typing Coptic or Greek

While communicating with your lecturer and your fellow students, you will need to type words in Coptic or Greek. Now most ancient language fonts – even if they are of the same language – have a different distribution of characters on the keyboard. So if members of the group use different fonts, this will lead to misunderstandings. I suggest therefore that you download the public domain Coptic and Greek fonts “Ifao N Copte” and “IFAO-Grec Unicode” or “New Athena Unicode”.

Ifao N Copte and IFAO-Grec Unicode

They are available for both PC and Macintosh computers on the following website:

http://www.ifao.egnet.net/publications/outils/polices/

Please take also note of the copyright notice on the website indicated. The fonts are available for a wide range of use, even for publication, however, commercial use is not permitted.

They are accompanied by a readme file, which explains the keyboard distribution of the letters and diacritics (accents, punctuation marks). They are professional fonts and give most of the diacritics and graphemes encountered in Coptic texts.

Coptic Unicode: New Athena Unicode

It is only in 2005 that a separate Unicode standard for Coptic has been defined. Before it has just been treated as an appendix of Greek. A free unicode font (New Athena Unicode) is available at:

http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pinax/greekkeys/NAUdownload.html. For information on Coptic input using New Athena Unicode see: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pinax/coptic.html.

If you wish to use type Coptic or Greek in an assignment or essay, install one of these fonts on your computer. To type Coptic or Greek in the online discussion forum use the following procedure:

·       When you create a discussion message, in the right upper corner of your window a little box should appear that reads "enable HTML creator".

·       If you click this box, the HTML editor should appear on your screen. Make sure you have selected “WYSIWYG” (“What you see is what you get”) at the bottom of the box.

·       Among the options at the top of the box there is a drop down menu with all the fonts installed on your computer. Choose SPAchmim from the list and try typing some Coptic (or SPIonic for Greek): you should see the words in this font, and anyone who has this font installed on their computer can see them in that font too.

Technical help

Technical help is provided by the following institutions:

·       Macquarie University Library

·       Centre for Open Education

Macquarie University Library

The website of the Macquarie University Library (http://www.mq.edu.au/on_campus/library/) offers a wealth of information for all students and not only on the holdings of the library. Under the section “Ready Reference” you will find Citation and Style Guides, under the section “Research Guides” you will find suggestions how to go about researching, evaluating, and presenting the information for your assignment. These suggestions are tailored to the needs of the various fields, so choose “Ancient History” from the list of subject areas. Students also have access to a vast selection of electronic journals and databases which the university subscribes to. Please see below for instructions how to access these sources for your research.

IT HelpComputers

·       IT Help provides information technology support and information and helps, among others, with general computer issues, access to unit pages and online material, and remote access to Library databases.

Contact:

IT Help Desk Level 1, University Library

Phone:                         +61 2 9850 HELP (4357)

Freecall:          1800 063 191 (within Australia)

Internet Chat:   ICQ#: 32801246

Face to Face: IT Help Desk

E-mail:Just Ask form http://www.libanswers.mq.edu.au/

24x7 Follow the Sun Helpdesk email: ithelp@mq.edu.au

Remote Access to Databases and Journals

·       To access databases and e-resources directly from an off-campus location, please go to the university library homepage (http://www.mq.edu.au/on_campus/library/).

Distance education students may find help also through:

Library Distance Education Service

·       Macquarie University Library provides numerous services for distance students, including online access to the Library’s Web catalogue and databases, reference assistance, IT help, online IT training, reciprocal borrowing and letters of introduction to other libraries.

Contact:

Library Distance Education Service

http://www.mq.edu.au/on_campus/library/borrowing/distance_education_students/

Macquarie University Library

NSW 2109

Australia

E-mail:             lib.libed@mq.edu.au

Phone:             +61 2 9850 7558

Fax:     +61 2 9850 7504

Free Phone (within Australia): 1 800 632 743

The Library also provides Delivery Services to Distance Education students living outside the Sydney metropolitan area (this includes Macquarie University students residing overseas.) Please note that books and some other media will not be posted to addresses outside Australia.

Centre for Open Education

http://www.mq.edu.au/about_us/offices_and_units/centre_for_open_education/

Macquarie University

NSW 2109

Australia

Phone:             +61 2 9850 7470

Fax:     +61 2 9850 7480

The Centre for Open Education is the primary point of contact between distance students and the University. It organizes and distributes the various forms of teaching materials, the electronic registration of the receipt and return of distance education assignments. Guidance for students is provided through the Distance Education Student Handbook distributed to all students enrolled in distance education.

External students enrolled in this unit will receive this study guide and the audio registrations on CD through the COE (in addition to having the possibility to listen to the registrations on the web and download them). However, you will be submitting your assignments directly to your lecturers using the assignments tool on the unit website.

Week 1 (Mar 3)

Topic

Introduction: General background on Roman, Byzantine and Early Islamic Egypt; the history of research on Coptic art and archaeology

Reading

·        Frend, W. H. C. The Archaeology of Early Christianity, Minneapolis 1996, 144-156 and 299-323.

Tutorial

Please visit the website of the course and introduce yourself briefly to your fellow students. No on-campus tutorial today.

Week 2 (Mar 12)

Topic

Architecture: Construction materials and elements

Reading

·        Architectural Elements of Churches, in: Coptic Encyclopedia (1991), 194-226.

Tutorial

There will be no formal tutorial today. On-campus students will meet for discussion of building in a climate like Egypt’s. External students are invited to join an online discussion about the advantages and disadvantages of mud brick vs. burnt brick and stone. Everyone: take a look at this interesting website: http://www.eartharchitecture.org/

It has overviews about the history and modern uses of “earth” as a building material. Let’s have our own discussion on what is “dirt”.

Week 3 (Mar 19)

Topic

Church architecture

Readings

·        Gabra, Coptic Monasteries, 96-100.

·        Dayr Anba Shinudah, in: Coptic Encyclopedia (1991), 761-770

·        Bagnall/Rathbone, 179-182 (Monastery of Apa Shenoute)

·        The Monastery of Shenouda the Archimandrite (at the St Shenouda Center)

http://www.stshenouda.com/stshenda/shenmon.htm

·        Minnesota in Egypt, University of Minnesota website on the excavations at the Red and White Monasteries: http://egypt.cla.umn.edu/default.htm

Additional Readings

·        Art and Architecture, Coptic, in: Coptic Encyclopedia (1991), 261-278

·        Bagnall/Rathbone, 163-167 (Hermopolis), 210-214 (Dendara)

·        Church architecture in Egypt, in: Coptic Encyclopedia (1991), 552-555

·        Grossmann, Peter, The Triconchoi in Early Christian Churches of Egypt and their Origins in the Ar­chi­tecture of Classical Rome, in: Roma e l’Egitto nell’Antichità Clas­sica 1992, 181-190.

Tutorial

The Church of the Monastery of Apa Shenoute (the so-called White Monastery)

 

Have a look at the plan and photos of the church of the monastery of Apa Shenoute and address one or more of the following questions:

·        When was the church built and by whom?

·        Which elements of church architecture are present in the church?

·        What building materials were used?

·        Why is the church a typical example of early Christian church architecture in Egypt?

·        What were the later modifications made to the church? To which purpose?

Week 4 (Mar 26)

Topic

Monastic architecture

Reading

·        Gabra, Coptic Monasteries, 120-123.

·        Gabra and Eaton-Krauss, Treasures of Coptic Art, 63-79.

·        Dayr Apa Jeremiah, in: Coptic Encyclopedia (1991), 772-779

·        Bagnall/Rathbone, 105-106 (Monastery of Apa Jeremia),

·        Quibell, J.E., Excavations at Saqqara, v.4. 1908-1909, 1909-1910. The monastery of Apa Jeremias, Cairo 1912, pp. 1-30, 129-142 and pls. I-LVIII.

           Additional Readings

·        Bagnall/Rathbone 108-115 (Nitria, Kellia, Wadi Natrun), 179-182 (Monastery of Apa Shenoute), 238-242 (Monastery of St Simeon)

Tutorial

The Monastery of Apa Jeremias

 

Please read the general background articles and, based on the excavation report by Quibell, esp. pp. 1-30, address one or more of the following questions:

·        Excavation and method

o   What reasons does Quibell give for his abandoning the excavation?

o   What is the area he has excavated? How long do you think would it take today to excavate the same area?

·        Monastic lifestyle

o   Which informations, if any, do Q.’s descriptions of the rooms give us about the lifestyle of the monks? E.g. was it a cenobitic or eremitic type of monastery?

o   Do we learn, e.g. how many monks lived in a cell? How was the eating, work and care of the sick organised? What about hospitality?

·        Tomb Church

o   Look at Room 1823. What reasons does Quibell give for identifying this room as a church?

o   How is it different from other churches (especially if you remember the lecture on church architecture)? (This has lead later scholars to contest Quibell’s identification).

Week 5 (Apr 2)

Topic

The architecture of pilgrimage and domestic architecture

Readings

·        Gabra and Eaton-Krauss, Treasures of Coptic Art, 115-117.

·        Hölscher, Uvo, The Excavation of Medinet Habu, Vol. V. Post-Ramessid Remains. Oriental Institute Publications 66, Chicago 1954, 45-58: (The Coptic Town of Jême) and pls. 36-48.

·        Kosciuk, Jacek, Some Early Medieval Houses in Abû Mînâ, in: M. Rassart-Debergh and J. Ries (eds.), Actes du IVe Congrès Copte, Louvain-la-Neuve, 5-10 septembre 1988. 2 vols, Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain 41, Louvain-la-Neuve: Institut Orientaliste 1992, vol. 1, 158-167.

·        Mond, Robert, Temples of Armant, 2 vols., vol. I, 36-39, plan 4, vol. II pls. XII-XIV and pls. XXXIV-XXXIX.

Additional Readings

·        Bagnall/Rathbone, 114-119 (Abu Mina); 131-134 (Karanis) 183-204, esp. p. 193 (Medinet Habu), 208 (Armant)

·        Grossmann, Peter, Abu Mina, a Guide to the Ancient Pilgrimage Center, Cairo 1986, chapter 1 (the English part, including plates).

·        Wilfong, Terry G., Western Thebes in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries: A Bibliographic Survey of Jême and Its Surroundings, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 26 (1989), pp. 89-145

·        Wilfong, T. G., Women of Jeme. Lives in a Coptic Town in Late Antique Egypt, Ann Arbor 2002, 1-22 (will be provided on the website)

Tutorial

Private houses

 

Compare the layout of the houses excavated in the city of Jeme and Armant and in the pilgrimage centre of Abu Mina and address one or more of the following questions:

·        Are there any differences in the layout of the houses between the sites (what about size? number of rooms? facilities? building materials? preservation?)

·        If so, can you gain any information from the articles to what these differences could be due, e.g. to:

o   the different historical period the sites belong to (Roman? Byzantine? Early Islamic?)

o   the different social stratum the owners of the houses belong to (rich? poor? middle class?)

o   the different geography which influences the resources at the disposal of the builders (e.g. availability of building materials such as stone, wood)

o   the different states of preservation or excavation of the sites (how much was preserved? how much could be excavated? in which part of the locality? what kind of techniques were available at the time of excavation? how much time did the archaeologists have to excavate?)

Week 6 (Apr 9)

Topic

Funerary architecture

Readings

·        Portals to Eternity: The Necropolis at Terenouthis in Lower Egypt

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/galleries/Exhibits/PortalsToEternity/MainPortals.html

Additional Readings

·        Martin, M. J., “The Necropolis of El Bagawat…”, in: M. Immerzeel, J. van der Vliet, eds., Coptic studies on the threshold of a new millennium. Proceedings of the seventh International congress of Coptic studies, Leiden, 27 August-2 September 2000, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta; 133. Louvain (etc.): Peeters, 2004, 1415-1423

·        McCleary, Roger V., “Ancestor Cults at Terenouthis in Lower Egypt: A Case for Greco-Egyptian Oecumenism”, in: Janet H. Johnson (ed.), Life in a Multi-Cultural Society. Egypt from Cambyses to Constantine and Beyond. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization. no 51. The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Chicago, IL. 1992, pp. 221-231.

Tutorial

The necropolis of Kom Abu Billu/Terenuthis in Lower Egypt

 

Please look at the exhibition “Portals to Eternity: The Necropolis at Terenouthis in Lower Egypt” and address one or more of the following questions:

·        What tomb types have been excavated?

·        What kind of funerary beliefs do the tombs reflect?

·        Which elements of the tomb in particular reflect these beliefs?

·        What population group or social stratum was buried in the necropolis?

·        Why is it that so many gravestones from the site are in museums today and the site itself is virtually destroyed?

Recess from 12 April to 27 April

Use the time wisely to revise all vocabulary and grammar learned so far!

 

Week 7 (Apr 30)

Topic

Sculpture

Readings

·        Gabra and Eaton-Krauss, Treasures of Coptic Art, 7-35.

·        Messiha, Hishmat, A New Periodization in the History of Coptic Art, in: T. Orlandi, F. Wisse (eds.), Acts of the Second International Congress of Coptic Studies, Roma: CIM, 1985 pp. 179-192

·        Thomas, Thelma K., “An Introduction to the Sculpture of Late Roman and Early Byzantine Egypt”, in: Florence D. Friedman (ed.), Beyond the Pharaohs: Egypt and the Copts in the 2^nd to 7^th Centuries A.D., Providence 1989, pp. 54-64.

·        Thomas, Thelma K., “Greeks or Copts? Documentary and Other Evidence for Ar­tistic Pa­tronage du­ring the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Periods at He­rakleopolis Mag­na and Oxy­rhyn­chos, Egypt“, in: J. H. Johnson (ed.), Life in a Multi-Cul­tu­ral Society: Egypt from Cambyses to Con­stan­tine and beyond. SAOC 51 (Chi­ca­go 1992), pp. 317-322 (including pls. 39.1 and 39.2)

·        Thomas, Thelma K, Late Antique Funerary Sculpture. Images for this World and the Next, Princeton 2000, Chapter 1 = pp. 3-21 and 92-101.

·        Bagnall/Rathbone 158-161 (Oxyrhynchos)

Additional Readings

·        Török, Laszlo, “Notes on the Chronology of Late Antique Stone Sculpture in Egypt”, Acts of the 3^rd International Congress of Coptic Studies, Warsaw 1984 (BX136.2.158/1984), pp. 437-485.

Tutorial

What is Coptic? What is Coptic Art?

 

(1) Thelma Thomas takes issue with the traditional use of the word “Coptic” in discussing the art and architecture of post-Pharaonic Egypt

Please address one or more of the following questions:

·       What type of art and artefact have traditionally been designed as “Coptic”?

·       What are their main characteristics?

·       Which scholars have mainly been involved in this discussion?

·       Why does Thomas take issue with the traditional designation?

·       What alternative does she suggest?

(2) In how far do the periods of Coptic Art History as advanced by Du Bourguet in his article “Art and Architecture, Coptic” and by Messiha overlap? Which definition of Coptic art is at the basis of the classification of either?

Week 8 (May 7)

Topic

Funerary stelae

Readings

·        Gabra and Eaton-Krauss, Treasures of Coptic Art, 169-183.

·        Brown, S. Kent, Coptic and Greek Inscriptions from Christian Egypt. A Brief Review, in: Birger A. Pearson and James E. Goehring (eds.), The Roots of Egyptian Christianity, Philadelphia 1986, 26-41.

·        Inscriptions, in: Coptic Encyclopedia (1991), 1290-1296

Additional Readings

·        Bagnall/Rathbone, 81-82

·        Online Article on Funerary Stelae: Vandy Bennett, Coptic Funerary Stelae in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

http://www.inq.pdx.edu/journal/article5.html

(Attn: pictures do not seem to load)

·        Stela, in: Coptic Encyclopedia (1991), 2149-2153

·        A comprehensive annotated bibliography on stelae from Egypt will be provided for your interest on the website.

Tutorial

The sociology of death

In addition to the readings indicated above, examples of stelae and texts of inscriptions will be provided on the website.

Please address one or more of the following questions:

·        Which elements does a funerary inscription contain and why do you think they are important?

·        What religious elements do funerary inscriptions contain?

·        Are statements made about the group the tomb owner belongs to (e.g. age, gender, wealth)?

·        From your own cultural background, are funerary inscriptions used?

o   If so, what information do they give about the deceased (e.g. profession, date of birth)?

Week 9 (May 14)

Topic

Painting

Readings

·        Gabra, Coptic Monasteries, 73-86 (see esp. the colour plates following p.80).

·        Bolman, Elizabeth, Monastic Visions, Wall Paintings in the Monastery of St. Antony at the Red Sea, New Haven: Yale University Press 2002, pp. 31-36 and 77-102

·        Bolman, Elizabeth S., Mimesis, Metamorphosis and Representation in Coptic Monastic Cells, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 35 (1998), 65-77.

·        Gabra and Eaton-Krauss, Treasures of Coptic Art,  86-87, 92, 196-205

·        Painting, Coptic mural, in: Coptic Encyclopedia (1991), 1872-1875

Additional Readings

·        Badawy, Alexander, Coptic Art and Archaeology, Cambridge 1978, 240-281

·        Bagnall/Rathbone, 120-123 (Monastery of St Paul and Monastery of St Antony),  175-178 (Bawit)

·        Portraiture, Coptic, in: Coptic Encyclopedia (1991), 2001-2007

Tutorial

The Monastery of St Antony and its paintings

 

Based on the reading of Gabra and Bolman’s work, please address one or more of the following questions:

·        What is the overall decoration programme of the monastery of St Antony?

·        How do the different stages of wall painting in the monastery differ?

·        What precursors does the 13^th cent. decoration programme build on?

Week 10 (May 21)

Topic

Book art, woodwork and ivory

Readings

·        Gabra and Eaton-Krauss, Treasures of Coptic Art, 119-129, 152-157, 194-195, 206-11, 216-217

·        See below “Tutorial”

Additional Readings

·        Bookbinding, in: Coptic Encyclopedia (1991), 407-409

·        Bone and ivory carving, Coptic, in: Coptic Encyclopedia (1991), 405-407

·        Illumination, Coptic, in: Coptic Encyclopedia (1991), 1282-1284

·        Woodwork, Coptic, in: Coptic Encyclopedia (1991), 2325-2347

Tutorial

What can we learn from reading a museum catalogue (what it does and what it doesn’t want to tell us)?

 

Please look at the following museum websites, click on a few pictures of artefacts to expand, read the descriptions and address one or more of the following questions:

 

Images from the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, including textiles from Egypt

http://www.doaks.org/ByzImages/byzartLREB.html

http://www.doaks.org/ByzImages/byztex.html

Cleveland Museum of Art

http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/searchlist.asp?searchText=coptic&display=list&recNo=0&tab=2

 

·        What types of information are given?

·        Who are they for?

·        What expectations do the descriptions have of their public?

 

Compare with the original paper labels in an ancient and underfunded museum with more artefacts than could possibly be exhibited (just for the record, the Coptic Museum has a new website now: http://www.coptic-cairo.com/museum/museum.html):

Coptic Museum, Cairo, (at ArtServe; the photographs include the original legends affixed to the exhibits in the museum in French and English)

http://rubens.anu.edu.au/raid5/egypt/cairo/museums/coptic_museum/ivories/           

http://rubens.anu.edu.au/raid5/egypt/cairo/museums/coptic_museum/manuscripts/

http://rubens.anu.edu.au/raid5/egypt/cairo/museums/coptic_museum/woodwork/

 

·        What kind of information did these older style labels give?

·        Did they have different expectations of their public?

Week 11 (May 28)

Topic

Ceramics, metalwork and glass

Readings

·        Winlock, H. E. and W. E. Crum, The Monastery of Epiphanius at Thebes. 2 vols. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition, New York 1926, vol. 1, pp. 51-97 (esp. pp. 78-97) and pls. XV-XXXV.

·        Ceramics, Coptic, in: Coptic Encyclopedia (1991), 480-504

Additional Readings

·        Ampulla, in: Coptic Encyclopedia (1991), 116-118.

·        Bagnall/Rathbone, 203-204 (Monastery of Epiphanius).

·        Glass, Coptic, in: Coptic Encyclopedia (1991), 1142-1147.

Tutorial

Ceramics

 

Please read Winlock and Crum pp. 78-97 and study the plates mentioned in the main text. Discuss the importance of ceramic production under one or more of the following aspects:

·        What ceramic types were found in the monastery? What did the monks use them for?

·        What is the importance of ceramics for the daily life of the monks?

·        When the archaeologists found (the excavation was before World War I) ceramics, how did they treat them?

·        What questions have the archaeologists asked and what kind of information have they drawn from the ceramics they found?

·        Read the encyclopaedia entry “Ceramics”. Does the entry put more questions to the ceramic material than Winlock did in the early 20^th century? If so, which?

·        Can you think of more questions that could be answered by looking at ceramics from different angles? In other words, are there interesting questions that the modern encyclopaedia does not address?

Week 12 (Jun 4)

Topic

Textiles

Readings

·        Biblical subjects in Coptic Art, in: Coptic Encyclopedia (1991), 382-390

·        Mythological Subjects in Coptic Art, in: Coptic Encyclopedia (1991), 1750-1768

 

Additional Readings

·        Christian subjects in Coptic Art, in: Coptic Encyclopedia (1991), 526-544

·        Symbols in Coptic Art, in: Coptic Encyclopedia (1991), 2160-2171

·        Textiles, Coptic: Iconography of Woven Textiles, in: Coptic Encyclopedia (1991), 2221-2227

·        Textiles, Coptic: Iconography of Resist-Dyed Textiles, in: Coptic Encyclopedia (1991), 2227-2230

·        Textiles, Coptic: Types of Fibers, in: Coptic Encyclopedia (1991), 2211-2213

·        Textiles, Coptic: Manufacturing Techniques, in: Coptic Encyclopedia (1991), 2213-2218

·        Textiles, Coptic: Organization of Production, in: Coptic Encyclopedia (1991), 2218-2221

Tutorial

Textiles

 

Please address one or more of the following questions:

·        Why do you think would anyone wear a textile with mythological decorations (or Christian decorations) or have them in their homes? What is the rationale behind this?

·        From which areas of Greek/Roman mythology were the decorative elements of Coptic textiles taken? Can you think of any general areas that are not represented at all?

·        Which are the preferred individual motifs (which gods/animals/plants) depicted on textile decorations?

·        What reasons are given for the persistence of some mythological themes way into the Christian period?

·        Compare the use of decorated clothing and home textiles to modern uses. Where are decorations appropriate? What motifs are common? What statements do the owner want to make?

Week 13 (Jun 11)

Topic

Summary and general discussion

No tutorial today

 

NOTE: the availability of pictures and information varies considerably between museum and museum. The Coptic Museum, e.g. has a website that allows access to a large number of artefacts, others will only show a few selected pieces. All links were active on Jan 15, 2006.

Research Guides

Reference Resources for Early Christian Art and Architecture

http://ica.princeton.edu/reference/bibresearchguide.htm

 

Research Guide for Byzantine Art and Archaeology

http://ica.princeton.edu/reference/brown.htm

 

 

Selected Museums with Coptic Artefacts

 

Images from the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, including textiles from Egypt

http://www.doaks.org/byzcollimages.html

 

Coptic Art from the Benaki Museum, Athens

http://www.benaki.gr/index.asp?id=10104&lang=en

 

Art in Egypt during the Byzantine Period: Coptic Art (University College, London)

http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/art/coptic.html

 

Coptic Textiles from the Rietz Collection (Department of Anthropology, California Academy of Sciences)

http://www.calacademy.org/research/anthropology/coptic/

 

Louvre Museum, Paris, Roman Egypt and Coptic Egypt

http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp (search for Rman Egypt or Coptic)

 

Cleveland Museum of Art

http://www.clevelandart.org/exhibcef/consexhib/html/coptic.html

http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/searchlist.asp?searchText=coptic&display=list&recNo=0&tab=2

 

Badisches Landesmuseum, Coptic Textiles (at ArtServe)

http://rubens.anu.edu.au/raider4/europe.0602/germany/karlsruhe/badisches_landesmuseum/textiles/coptic/

 

Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/04/b2003/hm4_1o.html

 

Coptic Museum, Cairo (Official Website)

http://www.copticmuseum.gov.eg/welcome.htm

 

Coptic Museum, Cairo, (at ArtServe; the photographs include the original legends affixed to the exhibits in the museum in French and English)

http://rubens.anu.edu.au/raid5/egypt/cairo/museums/coptic_museum/arms_and_armour/

http://rubens.anu.edu.au/raid5/egypt/cairo/museums/coptic_museum/bible_cases/

http://rubens.anu.edu.au/raid5/egypt/cairo/museums/coptic_museum/ivories/

http://rubens.anu.edu.au/raid5/egypt/cairo/museums/coptic_museum/jewellery/

http://rubens.anu.edu.au/raid5/egypt/cairo/museums/coptic_museum/manuscripts/

http://rubens.anu.edu.au/raid5/egypt/cairo/museums/coptic_museum/metalwork/

http://rubens.anu.edu.au/raid5/egypt/cairo/museums/coptic_museum/painting/

http://rubens.anu.edu.au/raid5/egypt/cairo/museums/coptic_museum/sculpture/

http://rubens.anu.edu.au/raid5/egypt/cairo/museums/coptic_museum/textiles/

http://rubens.anu.edu.au/raid5/egypt/cairo/museums/coptic_museum/woodwork/

 

Metropolitan Museum, New York

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/05/afe/ht05afe.htm

and:

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/06/nfe/ht06nfe.htm

(Objects from Egypt, 1-500 and 500-1000 [click on thumbnail pictures to enlarge], among others:)

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/06/nfe/ho_27.94.19.htm

(Menas ampulla)

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/06/nfe/ho_29.9.2a-v.htm

(Arch from Bawit?)

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/06/nfe/hod_36.2.6.htm

(Coptic Stela from Armant)

Exhibitions on Specific Sites/Groups of Objects

Portals to Eternity: The Necropolis at Terenouthis in Lower Egypt (at the University of Michigan)

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/galleries/Exhibits/PortalsToEternity/MainPortals.html

 

Kellis (at Monash University)

http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/exhibitions/egypt/xegy.html

 

Oxyrrhynchus (at the Oriental Institute, Oxford)

http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/POXY/VExhibition/vexhframe_hi.htm

 

Karanis

Exhibition catalog: Karanis: An Egyptian Town in Roman Times. Discoveries of the University of Michigan Expedition to Egypt (1924-1935) edited by Elaine K. Gazda:

http://www.umich.edu/~kelseydb/Exhibits/Karanis83/KaranisExcavation/KaranisExcavation.html

 

Roman Portraits from Egypt (Virtual exhibition of mummy portraits at the Berger Foundation)

http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/Home/high_fayoum.html

 

Other sites of Interest

World Art Treasures (at the Berger Foundation)

http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/index.html

Click on “Country, Region, City Slide Library”, then on “Africa”, then on “Egypt”

You will find pictures, sometimes with short description on various sites from the Roman/Byzantine period and from museums with Coptic Collections. Click, e.g. on “St Simeon” to see slides from the monastery, or “Le Fayoum” to see a number of mummy portraits.

 

Online Article on Funerary Stelae Vandy Bennett, Coptic Funerary Stelae in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

http://www.inq.pdx.edu/journal/article5.html

NOTE: pictures do not seem to load

 

Coptic Embroidery (at Historical Needlework Resources)

http://medieval.webcon.net.au/loc_middle_east_coptic.html

(This glossary is based for the most part on the glossary in Alexander Badawy, Coptic Art and Archaeology, Cambridge, Mass. 1978)

agape: ceremonial banquet

ambo: pulpit

arcosolium: square room with arched sides

basilica: a Roman architectural form (a covered rectangular public building, often    with colonnades) adopted for Christian church buildings

bema: stepped part of church containing the altar and synthronon

bulla: thick medaillion with embossed sides used as a pendant

castrum:fort

clavus: ornamental strip on a garment

clipeus:pointed oval enclosing a scene

contrapposto:stance of human figure that throws the weight of the body on one leg

crux ansata:looped cross derived from the Egyptian ankh

crux clipeata:cross within a clipeus

deir:“enclosure” monastery

diaconicon: sanctuary of the north side of the bema

haikal:chancel formed by three contiguous chapels in a row in a Coptic church

horror vacui:tendency to avoid vacant area in design

kline:couch or bed on or in which a corpse was buried in a Greco-Roman tomb

madonna lactans: madonna suckling

mandorla:oval enclosing a scene

mensola:horizontal bracket carved with a scene

narthex:entrance hall to a basilica, transverse or along the main body

orans:frontal figure with arms raised in oration

orbiculus:ornamental circle (or oval) on a garment

prothesis:sanctuary on the side of the bema, balancing the diaconicon, where bread and wine were placed

segmentum: ornamental square on a garment

stela: funerary or commemorative slab, usually of stone, with inscription and/or decora­tion

synthronon:built-in bishop’s throne flanked by clergy’s stalls behind the altar

tabula ansata:broad rectangular plaque with a trapezoid lug at each small side

transenna:enclosure or screen around a shrine

tribelon:three doorways connecting narthex to main body of church

virgo lactans:Virgin suckling

xenodocheion: hostel for guests

(This timeline is provided for the orientation of those students without previous familiarity with the history of Egypt in the First Millennium. Underlined names and other terms will appear as hyperlinks in the electronical version of this timeline.)

 

Roman Period

30 BCE            Conquest of Egypt by Caesar Augustus; Egypt becomes a Roman Province, with Greek retained as its administrative language

30 BCE - 14 CE The reign of Caesar Augustus

14-37               The reign of Emperor Tiberius

19                    Germanicus (adoptive son of Tiberius) travels to Egypt

37-41               Caligula

41-54               Claudius

~ 50                 St Mark the Evangelist missionises in Alexandria (various dates given by church historians)

54-68               Nero

69                    Year of four emperors; Vespasian acclaimed by the legions stationed in Egypt and visits the temple of Serapis in Alexandria

70                    Destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, numerous Jewish refugees come to Alexandria

79-81               Titus

81-96               Domitian

96-98               Nerva

115-117           Jewish rebellions in Egypt; the important community is virtually destroyed under Trajan and Hadrian

117-138           Hadrian

ca. 120            Christians in Egypt documented by papyrus finds

130                  Travel of Hadrian to Egypt; Antinoos drowns in the Nile and is deified; foundation of Antinoopolis

138-161           Antoninus Pius

172-173           Rebellion in the Delta under the leadership of a priest Isidorus

178-188           Julian first visible archbishop in Egypt

180-192           Commodus

193-211           Septimius Severus

~ 200               Flowering of Alexandrian theology (Origen, Clement)

201                  First major persecution of Christians

211                  Caracalla becomes emperor (after murdering his brother Geta)

212                  Roman citizenship given to all free inhabitants of the empire (Con­stitutio An­toniniana)

215                  Massacre in Alexandria (reason: Alexandrians producing ironic verses on the murder of Geta)

241                  Shapur I ascends to the throne of Sassanian Persia

242                  Mani (216-276) founds the religion of Manichaeism; Manichaean missionaries diffuse his teaching in Egypt in the second half of the 3rd cent.

249-51 and      Further persecutions under Decius (249-251) and Valerian (253-260; captured by the 257-59                        Persians in 260)

ca. 251-356     St Anthony, model for the eremitic lifestyle

260                  Tolerance edict of Gallienus; the following 40 years of peace enable Christianity to spread rapidly

270-272           Egypt under the control of Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, defeated by Aurelian

283/4               Diocletian becomes emperor; important administrative reforms with far-reaching impact on Egypt

288-346           Pachomius, model of the coenobitic lifestyle, abbot of a congregation of male and female monasteries

293                  Tetrarchy established (with Diocletian and Maximian as Augusti, Galerius and Constantius Chlorus as Caesars)

296                  Revolt in Egypt led by Domitius Domitianus and Aurelius Achilles

298                  Alexandria reconquered by Diocletian

303-311           Major persecutions of Christians (Edicts)

305                  Diocletian and Maximian abdicate (Diocletian dies in 311/2), Constantius and Galerius become Augusti

306                  Constantius dies

311                  Galerius issues decree of tolerance; dies

312                  Battle of Milvian Bridge; Constantine

313                  Tolerance edict (Edict of Milan) of Constantine (324-337 sole ruler)

from 318          Debate on Arianism (the Alexandrian presbyter Arius underlines the subordinate role and different nature of the Son as compared to the Father)

325                  Ecumenical Council of Nicea, Arius’ teaching condemned, Arianism continues to exist in the 4^th century as the creed of several emperors and some Germanic peoples

328-373           Athanasius, leading representative of Antiarianism, exiled several times by Arian emperors

330                  Constantinople (work started in 324) becomes capital of the Roman Empire

after 348-465   Shenoute of Atripe, abbot of a congregation of male and female monastic houses in Upper Egypt, important theologian and Coptic language author

361.363                Julian, last pagan emperor, killed in battle against the Persians, succeeded by Jovian

364                  Valentinian (West) and Valens (East)

379-395           Theodosius I

381                  Proscription of Arianism

385-412           Theophilus Patriarch of Alexandria

391/392           Closure of pagan temples and prohibition of sacrifices by Theodosius I, destruction of the temple of Serapis at Alexandria

Byzantine Period

395                  Division of the Roman Empire between the sons of Theodosius; Egypt becomes part of the Eastern Empire (Con­stantinople) under Arcadius

412-444           Cyril Patriarch of Alexandria; Egypt’s influence in the Church at its summit

415                  Murder of the famous neo-platonist philosopher Hypatia by Alexandrian Christians; synagogues converted into churches

431                  Council of Ephesus

451                  Council of Chalcedon; in the wake of the council centred around the question of the nature of Christ, large parts of the Egyptian Church separate in a century-long process from the Church in Constantinople, leading to a coexistence of Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian (Coptic) patriarch in Egypt

474-491           Zeno, emperor in the East (with two interruptions to his rule), attempts to reunite the divided church

491                  Anastasius (supports the non-Chalcedonian party)

527-565           Justinian; attempts to reunite the churches (from a Chalcedonian viewpoint) by political and military means; his wife Theodora (dies in 548) supports the non-Chalcedonian party

535-537           Last pagan temple on the island of Philae closed

~ 570               Mohammed born

603 onwards    Persian (Sassanian) invasions of eastern provinces

610-641           Heraclius

614                  Persians besiege and capture Jerusalem; the True Cross is taken

619-29             Occupation of Egypt by the Persian Sassanians

630                  After the defeat of the Persians in 628, Heraclius restores True Cross to Jerusalem, returns in triumph to Constantinople

632                  Mohammed dies

635                  Arabs conquer Damascus

636                  Battle of the River Yarmuk: Byzantine army defeated

638                  Jerusalem surrendered to the Arabs

641-68             Constans II

Early Islamic Period

640.42                   Conquest of Egyptby an Arab force under the general ^cAmr ibn al-^cAs; the lower and medium echelons of the administration still in the hands of local Christian dignitaries

706                  Use of Greek as administrative language abolished; flowering of Coptic as administrative language in the 7^th and 8^th centuries

8^th-9^th cent.      Increasing arabisation (government edicts redacted in Arabic starting in 706); first wave of conversions in the wake of failed rebellions and fiscal pressure in the first half of the 9^th cent., culminating in the ultimately unsuccessful Bashmuric revolts with the deportation or conversion of many Christians

8^th-13^th cent.    Production of the majority of Coptic manuscripts known today, copying, redacting and collecting activity in Coptic monasteries

969-1250         Fatimids (until 1171) and Ayyubids (1171-1250): relative tolerance of Christians and Jews with sporadic persecutions (mainly 1010-1020 under al-Hakim); increasing substitution of Arabic for Coptic also in the religious sphere

1250-1390       Bahri-Mameluks: numerous pogroms. Christians becoming scapegoats for a hated foreign rule and a Sunni Muslim revival in Egypt leads to a wave of persecutions and conversions

The titles listed below form only a selection from the vast bibliography on First Millennium Egyptian art and archaeology available. The selection was made with an emphasis on English language titles (if at all possible – with Coptic art traditionally being firmly in the hands of French or German speaking scholars) and works of general interest. For further reading consult the bibliographical aids listed below.

NOTE: A more general bibliography of Coptic Studies/Roman, Byzantine, and Early Islamic Egypt is available at http://www.coptic.mq.edu.au/biblio.html.

The titles marked with an asterisk * are either in the reference section of the library or are placed on reserve and cannot be borrowed for more than three days.

(NB. Please note also that many of the reference works, such as the Coptic Encyclopedia, other encyclopedias and dictionaries, are kept in the reference section of the library in any case and cannot be checked out. Please consult the library catalogue for more information.)

The titles marked ** are available on electronic reserve from the website of Macquarie University Library (to access, go to “Reserve” and enter the unit code AHPG855).

More titles may be added to the reserve list or made available on electronic reserve as the semester progresses (also upon request by students - just ask, and it will be done if at all possible!).

Bibliographical aids

Older General Bibliographies

Biedenkopf-Ziehner, Anneliese, Koptologische Literaturübersicht, in: Enchoria 2 (1972)-7 (1977-79); 10 (1980).

Kammerer, Winifred, A Coptic Bibliography, Ann Arbor 1950.

Simon, Jean, Bibliographie copte, in: Orientalia 18 (1949)-36 (1967).

Current

General: Orlandi, Tito, Coptic Bibliography, brought up-to-date by supplements, until the middle of the 1990s, now available online at: www.rmcisadu1.uniroma.it/~cmcl.

NB: Macquarie University has subscribed to this bibliography. Information about accessing the bibliography will be found on the internal pages of this unit. The bibliography can be searched according to various criteria, however, you must be aware that the different subfields are named in Italian. I have provided a list of translations to make access easier.

(Translation of the Italian section titles for the Bibliography [although not difficult to guess J]: Bibbia = Bible; Gnosticismo = Gnosticism; Letteratura = Literature; Agiografia = Hagiography; Storia = History; Generalia = General Works; Manoscritti = Manuscripts; Linguistica = Linguistics; Archeologia = Archaeology)

For advanced students there is no possibility to avoid using this bibliography, since the other bibliographies do not cover the last 25 years.

The acts of the international congresses for Coptic Studies, held every four years, contain various progress reports on Coptic art and archaeology (and a number of other subjects) appeared in the interval between the congresses.

A short Bibliography of Egypt in the Greek and Roman and Islamic Period, on the site “Digital Egypt for Universities” University College London

http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/bibliogrero.html

A useful, but not comprehensive, bibliography of works on different aspects of Graeco-Roman and Islamic Egypt. Titles are given in alphabetical order.

General Introductions to Coptic Studies

Atiya, Aziz Suryal (ed.), The Coptic Encyclopedia, 8 vols., New York 1991.

Entries relevant to Coptic history and culture (including art and archaeological sites) can be found in many encyclopedias in the fields of theology and ancient history, such as: Encyclopedia of the Early Church, Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum, Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Theologische Realenzyklopädie, Dictionnaire d’archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie, Dictionnaire de spiritualité, Pauly-Wissowa’s Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (and Der Neue Pauly), Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Lexikon der Ägyptologie and many more.

Krause, Martin (ed.), Ägypten in spätantik-christlicher Zeit. Einführung in die koptische Kultur, Wiesbaden 1998.

History of First Millennium Egypt

*Bagnall, Roger S., Egypt in Late Antiquity, Princeton 1993.

Bagnall, Roger S., Copts, in: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, vol. 1, New York 2001, 302-307.

Bagnall, Roger S., Roman Occupation, in: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, vol. 3, New York 2001, 148-156.

Bagnall, Roger S., Egypt, Late Roman, in: Dictionary of the Middle Ages 10, New York 1988, 453-456.

Bowman, Alan K., Egypt after the Pharaohs, Oxford 1986.

Coptic Encyclopedia: Egypt, Roman and Byzantine Rule in; Egypt, Islamization of; Roman Emperors in Egypt

Jones, A. H. M., The Later Roman Empire 284-602. A Social, Economic, and Administrative Survey, 2 voll., Oxford 1964.

Lewis, Naphtali, Life in Egypt under Roman Rule, Oxford 1983.

Petry, Carl F. (ed.), The Cambridge History of Egypt Volume One: Islamic Egypt 640-1517, Cambridge 1998.

Wilfong, Terry, The non-Muslim Communities: Christian Communities, in: Carl F. Petry (ed.), The Cambridge History of Egypt Volume One: Islamic Egypt 640-1517, Cambridge 1998, 175-197.

Art and Archaeology - General

Ägypten. Schätze aus dem Wüstensand. Kunst und Kultur der Christen am Nil. Katalog zur Ausstellung her­aus­gegeben vom Gustav-Lübcke-Museum der Stadt Hamm und dem Museum für Spätantike und By­zan­tinische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Wiesbaden 1996.

L’art copte en Égypte. 2000 ans de christianisme. Exposition présentée à l’Institut du monde arabe, Pa­ris, du 15 mai au 3 septembre 2000 et au musée de l’Éphèbe au Cap d’Agde du 30 septembre 2000 au 7 janvier 2001, Paris 2000.

Badawy, Alexander Mikhail, L’art copte. Les influences égyptiennes, Cairo 1948.

*Badawy, Alexander, Coptic Art and Archaeology: The Art of the Christian Egyptians from the Late Antique to the Middle Ages, Cambridge 1978.

Bagnall, Roger S., Rathbone, Dominic W., Egypt From Alexander to the Copts - An Archaeological and Historical Guide, London: The British Museum Press 2004.

**Bjorkman, G., On Frontality in Coptic Art, in: AA VV, Sundries in Honour of Torgny Säve-Söderbergh. Boreas 13, Stockholm: Almqvist Wicksell 1984, 43-46.

Boyd, Susan and Gary Vikan, Question of Authenticity among the Arts of By­zan­tium: Ca­talogue of an Ex­hibition held at Dumbarton Oaks. Dum­bar­ton Oaks, By­zan­tine Collections Publications 3, Wa­shington 1981.

Bresciani, Edda, Dall'Egitto ellenistico all'Egitto cristiano. L'eredità faraonica, in: XXVIII Corso di Cultura sull'Arte Ravennate e Bizantina, Ravenna: Edizioni del Girasole 1981, 21-30.

Cooney, D. H., Late Egyptian and Coptic Art: An Introduction to the Collections in the Brooklyn Museum, New York 1943.

Curto, Silvio, L'archeologia cristiana dell'Egitto e della Nubia, XXVIII Corso di Cultura sull'Arte Ravennate e Bizantina, Ravenna: Edizioni del Girasole, 1981, 77-101.

Du Bourguet, Pierre, L’art copte, Paris 1968.

Effenberger, Arne, Koptische Kunst. Ägypten in spätantiker, byzantinischer und früh­is­la­mi­scher Zeit, Leip­zig 1975.

Egger, Gerhart, Frühchristliche und koptische Kunst, Ausstellungskatalog Wien 1966.

Farag, F. Rofail, Is There Any Justification for the Existence of Coptic Art? Two Re­cent Critical Opi­nions, Kunst des Orients XI, 1/2 (1976/77), 22-42.

Friedman, Florence D., Beyond the Pharaohs. Egypt and the Copts in the Se­cond to Se­venth Centuries A. D., Providence 1989.

Gabra, Gawdat, Coptic Monasteries. Egypt’s Monastic Art and Architecture, Cairo 2002

Gayet, Albert, L’art copte. Ecole d’Alexandrie, architecture monastique, sculp­ture, pein­ture, art somptuaire, Paris 1902.

Hunt, L. A., Coptic Art, in: Dictionary of the Middle Ages 3, New York 1983, 585-93.

Koptische Kunst. Christentum am Nil. 3. Mai - 15. Aug. 1963, Villa Hügel, Es­sen

Krause, Martin, Die Bedeutung alter Dokumentationen für die koptische Kunst, in: S. Giversen, M. Krause, P. Nagel (eds.), Coptology: Past, Present, and Future. Studies in Honour of Rodolphe Kasser, Leuven: Peeters 1994, 17-34.

**Messiha, Hishmat, A New Periodization in the History of Coptic Art, in: T. Orlandi and F. Wisse (eds.), Acts of the Second International Congress of Coptic Studies, Roma: CIM 1985, 179-192.

Rassart-Debergh, Marguerite, Peinture copte. Premières constatations, Pictores per Provincias (= Cahiers d'Archéologie Romande 43, Aventicum 5), Avenches 1987, 93-101.

**Rostkowska, Bozena, Classical Traditions in the Christian Art of the Nile Valley, in: M. Mullett, R. Scott (eds.), Byzantium and the Classical Tradition. University of Birmingham Thirteenth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies 1979, Birmingham: Centre for Byzantine Studies 1981, 149-154.

Severin, Hans-Georg, Egitto. III: Archeologia, Scultura, Pittura, in: A. di Berardino (ed.) Dizionario Patristico, Casale Monferrato: Marietti, 1983, vol. I, col. 1120-1127.

Strzygowski, J, Koptische Kunst. Catalogue Général du Musée du Caire, Wien 1904.

**Thomas, Thelma K., Greeks or Copts? Documentary and Other Evidence for Ar­tistic Pa­tronage du­ring the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Periods at He­rakleopolis Mag­na and Oxy­rhyn­chos, Egypt, in: J. H. Johnson (Hg.), Life in a Multi-Cul­tu­ral Society: Egypt from Cambyses to Con­stan­tine and beyond. SAOC 51 (Chi­ca­go 1992), 317-322.

Török, Laszlo, Zur Ikonographie der koptischen Kunst im 6. bis 7. Jahrhundert, Wiss. Zeit­schr. der Hum­boldt Universität in Berlin, Gesellschafts- und Sprachwissenschaftliche Rei­he XX, 1971/73, 295-306

Trauzeddel, S., Untersuchungen zum Volkstumscharakter der koptischen Kunst, Diss. Hal­le 1968.

**Trilling, J., Late Antique and Subantique or the ‘Decline of Form’ Re­con­si­dered, Dum­barton Oaks Pa­pers 41 (1987), 469-76.

*Weitzmann, Kurt (ed.), Age of Spirituality. Late Antique and Early Christian Art, Third to Seventh Cen­tury, New York 1979.

Wessel, Klaus, Koptische Kunst. Die Spätantike in Ägypten, Recklinghausen 1963.

Wipszycka, Ewa, Apports de l'archéologie à l'histoire du monachisme égyptien, in: Marek Starowieyski (ed.), The Spirituality of Ancient Monasticism. Acts of the International Colloquium held in Cracow-Tyniec 16-19th November 1994, Cracow: Benedictine Abbey of Tyniec 1995, 63-78.

Zaloscer, Hilde, Die koptische Kunst - der heutige Stand ihrer Erforschung (Ein Pro­blem der Me­tho­dik), Enchoria 21 (1994), 73-89.

Zaloscer, Hilde,           Zur Genese der koptischen Kunst - Ikonographische Beiträge, Wien etc. 1991 (Rez. E. Ru­prechtsberger, Enchoria 21 [1994], 192-194).

Zaloscer, Hilde,           Die Kunst im christlichen Ägypten, Wien–München 1974.

Iconography

Coptic Encyclopedia, s.v. Biblical subjects in Coptic Art; Christian subjects in Coptic Art; Mythological Subjects in Coptic Art; Symbols in Coptic Art

**Auth, Susan, “Significance of Egyptian, Classical, and Christian themes in Coptic Art”, in: M. Immerzeel, J. van der Vliet, eds., Coptic studies on the threshold of a new millennium. Proceedings of the seventh International congress of Coptic studies, Leiden, 27 August-2 September 2000, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta; 133. Louvain (etc.): Peeters, 2004, 1141-1158

**Bolman, Elisabeth, “The Coptic Galaktotrophousa Revisited”, in: M. Immerzeel, J. van der Vliet, eds., Coptic studies on the threshold of a new millennium. Proceedings of the seventh International congress of Coptic studies, Leiden, 27 August-2 September 2000, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta; 133. Louvain (etc.): Peeters, 2004, 1173-1184

Langener, Lucia, Isis Lactans - Maria Lactans: Untersuchungen zur koptischen Ikonographie, in: Stephen Emmel et alii (eds.), Ägypten und Nubien in spätantiker und christlicher Zeit. Akten des 6. Internationalen Koptologenkongresses, Münster, 20.-26. Juli 1996, 2 vols. (= Sprachen und Kulturen des christlichen Orients, 6,1-2), Wiesbaden: Reichert 1999, vol. 1, 223-229.

Maguire, Henry, Christians, Pagans, and the Representation of Nature, in: Begegnung von Heidentum und Christentum im spätantiken Ägypten. Riggisberger Berichte 1, Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung 1993, 131-160.

Meinardus, Otto F. A., An Inquiry: The Coptic Iconography of Hell, Ekklesia kai Theologia 6 (1985), 713-722.

Meinardus, Otto F. A., Die Sigmaform als Altarplatte. Grabstele und Klostertisch, Göttinger Miszellen 78 (1984), 55-67.

Meinardus, Otto F. A., Eine koptische Darstellung des Sündenfalls, Orientalia Suecana 29 (1980), 5-26.

Meinardus, Otto, The Twenty-four Elders of the Apocalypse in the Iconography of the Coptic Church, Studia Orientalia Christiana. Collectanea 13 (1972), 141-157.

Nauerth, Claudia, Mythologische Themen in der koptischen Kunst - eine Be­stands­auf­nah­me, Jour­nal of Coptic Stu­dies 2 (1992), 43-53.

Nauerth, Claudia, Mythologische Themen in der koptischen Kunst: neue Bestandsaufnahme 1991/2, in: Begegnung von Heidentum und Christentum im spätantiken Ägypten, Riggisberger Berichte 1, Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung 1993, 187-198.

Nauerth, Claudia and Rüdiger Warns, Thekla. Ihre Bilder in der frühchristlichen Kunst, Göttinger Orientforschungen II.3, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 1981.

Nauerth, Claudia, Nachlese von Thekla-Darstellungen, in: G. Koch (ed.), Studien zur spätantiken und frühchristlichen Kunst und Kultur des Orients. Göttinger Orientforschungen II.6, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 1982, 14-18.

Parlasca, Klaus, Pseudokoptische 'Reiterheilige', in: G. Koch (ed.), Studien zur spätantiken und frühchristlichen Kunst und Kultur des Orients. Göttinger Orientforschungen II.6, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 1982, 19-30.

Rassart-Debergh, Marguerite, Le Christ et la croix dans l'art copte, in: S. Giversen, M. Krause, P. Nagel (eds.), Coptology: Past, Present, and Future. Studies in Honour of Rodolphe Kasser, Leuven: Peeters 1994, 45-70.

Rassart-Debergh, Marguerite, Quelques bateaux coptes et leur signification, Bulletin de la Société d’Archéologie Copte 31 (1992), 55-73.

Roquet, Gérard, La "réception" de l'image et du texte à motifs d'apocryphes dans les chrétientés d'Égypte et de Nubie: quelques aperçus, Apocrypha 2 (1991), 181-216.

Museums

Coptic Encyclopedia, s.v. Museums, Coptic collections in

Bierbrier, Morris L., Coptic Antiquities in the Department od Egyptian Antiquities, British Museum, in: Stephen Emmel et alii (eds.), Ägypten und Nubien in spätantiker und christlicher Zeit. Akten des 6. Internationalen Koptologenkongresses, Münster, 20.-26. Juli 1996, 2 Vols. (= Sprachen und Kulturen des christlichen Orients, 6,1-2), Wiesbaden: Reichert 1999, vol. 1, 87-90.

Donadoni-Roveri, Anna, Objets peu connus du Musée de Turin, Bulletin de la Société Française d'Égyptologie 104 (1985), 12-30.

Effenberger, Arne and Hans-Georg Severin, Die Frühchristlich-Byzantinische Sammlung Berlin, Mainz: Von Zabern 1991.

Etinhof, Olga, The Coptic Art Collection of Vladimir Semjonovich Golenischev in Moscow, in: Stephen Emmel et alii (eds.), Ägypten und Nubien in spätantiker und christlicher Zeit. Akten des 6. Internationalen Koptologenkongresses, Münster, 20.-26. Juli 1996, 2 vols. (= Sprachen und Kulturen des christlichen Orients, 6,1-2), Wiesbaden: Reichert 1999, vol. 1, 127-134.

Gabra, Gawdat, Das Projekt "Catalogue Général du Musée Copte". Stand der Arbeiten bis Dezember 1988, in: M. Rassart-Debergh and J. Ries (eds.), Actes du IVe Congrès Copte, Louvain-la-Neuve, 5-10 septembre 1988. 2 vols, Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain 41, Louvain-la-Neuve: Institut Orientaliste 1992, vol. 1, 27-32.

Kakovkin, Alexander, L'art copte de l'Ermitage, in: W. Godlewski (ed.), Coptic Studies. Acts of the Third International Congress of Coptic Studies, Warsaw, 20-25 August 1984, Warszawa: PWN 1990, 179-186.

Nageh, Ashraf, The Restoration of the Wall Paintings in the Coptic Museum, in: Stephen Emmel et alii (eds.), Ägypten und Nubien in spätantiker und christlicher Zeit. Akten des 6. Internationalen Koptologenkongresses, Münster, 20.-26. Juli 1996, 2 vols. (= Sprachen und Kulturen des christlichen Orients, 6,1-2), Wiesbaden: Reichert 1999, vol. 1, 297-302,

Rutschowscaya, Marie-Hélène, Conques et tympanes du musée du Louvre, in: M. Krause and S. Schaten (eds.), QEMELIA ... Studien Peter Grossmann zum 65. Geburtstag, Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1998, 289-304.

Rutschowscaya, Marie-Hélène, L'Égypte copte, Le Louvre - Les antiquités égyptiennes, Paris: Scala-RMN, 1990, 86-95.

Rutschowscaya, Marie-Hélène, L'Égypte copte, Louvre - Guides des collections, Paris: RMN 1989, 139-143.

Severin, Hans-Georg, Anmerkungen zur Rezeption koptischer Skulptur im Koptischen Museum, in: Stephen Emmel et alii (eds.), Ägypten und Nubien in spätantiker und christlicher Zeit. Akten des 6. Internationalen Koptologenkongresses, Münster, 20.-26. Juli 1996, 2 vols. (= Sprachen und Kulturen des christlichen Orients, 6,1-2), Wiesbaden: Reichert 1999, vol. 1, 365-374.

Architecture

Coptic Encyclopedia, s.v. Architectural Elements of Churches; Art and Architecture, Coptic; Church architecture in Egypt.

*Alston, Richard, The City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt, London und New York 2002 (pp. 104-127 on e-reserve).

Curto, Silvio, Per la storia della basilica copta, Ricerche di Egittologia e di Antichità Copte 4 (2002), 103-121.

Grossmann, Peter, Koptische Architektur, in: Martin Krause (Hg.), Ägypten in spätantik-christlicher Zeit. Ein­führung in die koptische Kultur. Sprachen und Kulturen des christlichen Orients 4, Wiesbaden 1998, 209-267.

Grossmann, Peter, Christliche Architektur in Ägypten. Handbuch der Orientalistik Abt.1, Bd. 62, Leiden-Boston-Köln 2002.

Grossmann, Peter, Zur christlichen Baukunst in Ägypten, Enchoria Sonderband VIII (1978), 89*-100*.

Grossmann, Peter, Frühchristliche Baukunst in Ägypten, in: Beat Brenk (ed.). Spätantike und frü­hes Chri­sten­tum. Propyläen Kunstgeschichte Supplement 1, Frank­furt etc. 1977, 234-243.

Grossmann, Peter, The Triconchoi in Early Christian Churches of Egypt and their Origins in the Ar­chi­tecture of Classical Rome, in: Roma e l’Egitto nell’Antichità Clas­sica 1992, 181-190.

Grossmann, Peter, Die zweischaligen spätantiken Vierkonchenbauten in Ägypten und ihre Beziehung zu den gleichartigen Bauten in Europa und Kleinasien, in: AA VV, Das römisch-byzantinische Ägypten. Aegyptiaca Treverensia 2, Mainz: Von Zabern 1983, 167-174.

Grossmann, Peter, Zum Typ der "Breithauskirche" in Ägypten, Oriens Christianus 59 (1975), 159-164.

Grossmann, Peter, Mittelalterliche Langhaus-Kuppelkirchen und verwandte Typen in Oberägypten, Abhandlungen DAIK, Koptische Reihe 3, Glückstadt: Augustin 1982.

Grossmann, Peter, Esempi d'architettura paleocristiana in Egitto dal V al VII secolo, in: XXVIII Corso di Cultura sull'Arte Ravennate e Bizantina, Ravenna: Edizioni del Girasole 1981, 149-176.

Grossmann, Peter, Egitto. III: Archeologia. Architettura Monasteri, in: A. di Berardino (ed.), Dizionario Patristico, Casale Monferrato: Marietti 1983, vol. I, col. 1115-1120.

Book arts

Coptic Encyclopedia, s. v. Bookbinding; Illumination, Coptic

Cramer, Maria, Koptische Buchmalerei, Recklinghausen 1964.

Leroy, Jules, Les manuscrits coptes et coptes-arabes illustrés, Paris 1974.

Ceramics

**Coptic Encyclopedia, s.v. Ampulla, Ceramics, Coptic

Ballet, Pascale, Lampes du Musée Copte (Vieux-Caire). Brève présentation, in: M. Rassart-Debergh and J. Ries (eds.), Actes du IVe Congrès Copte, Louvain-la-Neuve, 5-10 septembre 1988. 2 vols, Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain 41, Louvain-la-Neuve: Institut Orientaliste 1992, vol. 1, 124-126.

Kiss, Zsolt, Alexandrie 5. Les ampoules de Saint Ménas découvertes à Kôm al-Dikka (1961-1981), Varsovie: PWN 1989.

Kiss, Zsolt, Évolution stylistique des ampoules de St. Ménas, in: W. Godlewski (ed.), Coptic Studies. Acts of the Third International Congress of Coptic Studies, Warsaw, 20-25 August 1984, Warszawa: PWN 1990, 195-202.

Krause, Martin, Koptische Tonschalen des 6/7 Jahrhunderts, Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum 11-12 (1968-69). 76-82.

Mahmoud, Fatma, La section de céramique du Musée Copte. État du catalogue général, in: David W. Johnson (ed.), Acts of the Fifth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Washington, 12-15 August 1992, Roma: CIM 1993, vol. 2, 285-298.

Rodziewicz, Mieczyslaw, Egyptian Glazed Pottery of the Eighth to Ninth Centuries, Bulletin de la Société d’Archéologie Copte 25 (1983), 73-75.

Glass

**Coptic Encyclopedia, s. v. Glass, Coptic

Auth, S. H., Luxury Glasses with Alexandrian Motifs, Journal of Glass Stu­dies.25 (1983), 39-44.

Auth, S. H., Intarsia Glass Pictures in Coptic Egypt, in: Annales du II^e Congrès de l’As­so­cia­tion in­ter­na­tio­nale pour l’Histoire du Verre, Basel 1988.

Ivories

**Coptic Encyclopedia, s. v. Bone and Ivory Carving, Coptic.

Volbach, Wolfgang Fritz, Elfenbeinarbeiten der Spätantike und des frühen Mit­tel­alters. Rö­misch-Ger­manisches Zentralmuseum zu Mainz, For­schungs­in­stitut für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Ka­taloge vor- und früh­christ­licher Al­ter­tümer 7, Mainz ³1976.

Leather

**Coptic Encyclopedia, s. v. Leatherwork, Coptic

Oerter, Wolf B., Die Leder- und Flechtarbeiten des Koptischen Museums Kairo. Ein Arbeitsbericht zum "Catalogue Général du Musée Copte", Bulletin de la Société d’Archéologie Copte 29 (1990), 49-54.

Metal

Bénazeth, Dominique, Catalogue général du Musée Copte: Les objets de metal, Bulletin de la Société d’Archéologie Copte 30 (1991), 49-51 and pls. I-III.

Bénazeth, Dominique, Musée du Louvre, Département des antiquités égyptiennes. Catalogue des collections. L'art du métal au début de l'ère chrétienne, Paris 1992.

Bénazeth, Dominique, Objets de métal de la section copte du Musée du Louvre, in: M. Rassart-Debergh and J. Ries (eds.), Actes du IVe Congrès Copte, Louvain-la-Neuve, 5-10 septembre 1988. 2 vols, Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain 41, Louvain-la-Neuve: Institut Orientaliste 1992, vol. 1, 63-69.

Krause, Martin, Zum Silberschatz von Luxor, in: Bild- und Formensprache der spätantiken Kunst. Boreas 17, Münster 1994, 149-157.

Painting

**Coptic Encyclopedia, s. v. Icons, Coptic; Painting, Coptic mural; Portraiture, Coptic

Bierbrier, M. L. (ed.), Portraits and Masks, Burial Customs in Roman Egypt, London 1997.

**Bolman, Elizabeth S., Mimesis, Metamorphosis and Representation in Coptic Monastic Cells, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 35 (1998), 65-77.

Bonani, Gian Paolo and Serena Baldassarre Bonani, Maria Lactans, Roma: Marianum 1995.

Du Bourguet, Pierre, La peinture murale copte: quelques problèmes devant la peinture murale nubienne, in: Erich Dinkler (ed.), Kunst und Geschichte Nubien in christlicher Zeit, Recklinghausen 1970, 303-324.

**Corcoran, Lorelei H., Evidence for the Survival of Pharaonic Religion in Ro­man Egypt: The Por­trait Mummy, in: Wolfgang Haase (Hg.), Aufstieg und Niedergang der rö­mischen Welt, Bd. II.18.5, Berlin und New York 1995, 3316-3332.

Ihm, Christa, Die Programme der christlichen Apsismalerei vom 4. bis zur Mitte des 8. Jhs., Wiesbaden:Steiner 1960, ²1993.

Krause, Martin, Zur Lokalisierung und Datierung koptischer Denkmäler: das Tafelbild des Bischofs Abraham, Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache 97 (1971), 106-111.

Parlasca, Klaus, Ritratti tardoantichi e copti in Egitto, in: XXVIII Corso di Cultura sull'Arte Ravennate e Bizantina, Ravenna: Edizioni del Girasole 1981, 231-238.

Parlasca, Klaus, Mumienporträts und verwandte Denkmäler, Wiesbaden 1966.

Parlasca, Klaus, Ritratti di mummie, in: Achille Adriani (ed.), Repertorio d’arte dell’Egit­to greco-ro­mano, Ser. B, vol. 1-3, Palermo 1969, Roma 1977; 1980.

Rassart-Debergh, Marguerite, Masques de momies, portraits et icônes, in: AA VV, Arts tardifs et chrétiens d'Égypte. Le Monde Copte 14-15, Limoges: Le Monde Copte 1988, 28-30.

Rassart-Debergh, Marguerite, Survivances de l'hellénistico-romain dans la peinture copte (antérieur au IXe s.), Graeco-Arabica 2 (1983), 227-247.

Rassart-Debergh, Marguerite, La peinture copte avant le XIIe siècle. Une approche, in: Acta ad Ar­chaeo­logiam et Artium Hi­storiam pertinentia 9, Rom 1981.

Rickert, Franz, Koptische Kunst und Oikumene. Das Beispiel der Malerei, in: A. Gerhards and H. Brakmann (eds.), Die koptische Kirche. Einführung in das ägyptische Christentum, Stuttgart-Berlin-Köln: Kohlhammer 1994, 76-83.

Rutschowscaya, Marie-Hélène, La peinture copte. Musée du Louvre, Paris 1992.

Rutschowscaya, Marie-Hélène, Quelques rares peintures sur toile de lin à l'époque copte, Journal of Coptic Studies 2 (1992) 55-62.

Severin, Hans-Georg, Frühchristliche Skulptur und Malerei, in: Beat Brenk (Hg.), Spät­antike und frü­hes Christentum. Propyläen Kunstgeschichte Sup­plement 1, Frank­furt etc. 1977, 243-253.

Skálová, Zuzana and Sobhy Shenuda Attia, Final Report, Part 1. The Conservation of Medieval Icons in the Coptic Museum, Bulletin de la Société d'Archéologie Copte 37 (1998), 101-115.

Skálová, Zuzana et al., Looking through Icons: Note on the Egyptian-Dutch “Conservation of Coptic Icons Project” 1989-1996 in: Stephen Emmel et alii (eds.), Ägypten und Nubien in spätantiker und christlicher Zeit. Akten des 6. Internationalen Koptologenkongresses, Münster, 20.-26. Juli 1996, 2 vols. (= Sprachen und Kulturen des christlichen Orients, 6,1-2), Wiesbaden: Reichert 1999, vol. 1, 375-387.

Skálová, Zuzana, A Little Noticed Thirteenth-Century Byzantine Icon in the Church of St. Barbara in Old Cairo "The Virgin with Child Enthroned", Bulletin de la Société d’Archéologie Copte 30 (1991), 93-103 and pls. I-VI.

Thompson, David L., Mummy Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu 1982.

van Loon, Gertrud J. M., The Iconography of Jephthah. A Wall-painting in the Sanctuary of the Old Church of St. Anthony's Monastery near the Red Sea, in: M. Rassart-Debergh and J. Ries (eds.), Actes du IVe Congrès Copte, Louvain-la-Neuve, 5-10 septembre 1988. 2 vols, Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain 41, Louvain-la-Neuve: Institut Orientaliste 1992, vol. 1, 115-123.

van Loon, Gertrud J.M., Church of Abu Sayfayn: Wall Paintings in the Chapel of Mar Girgis, in: Stephen Emmel et alii (eds.), Ägypten und Nubien in spätantiker und christlicher Zeit. Akten des 6. Internationalen Koptologenkongresses, Münster, 20.-26. Juli 1996, 2 vols. (= Sprachen und Kulturen des christlichen Orients, 6,1-2), Wiesbaden: Reichert 1999, vol. 1, 249-261.

van Loon, Gertrud J. M., The Gate of Heaven. Wall Paintings with Old Testament Scenes in the Altar Room and the Hurus of Coptic Churches, Leiden: Nederlands Instituut van het Nabije Oosten 1999.

van Moorsel, Paul, Mat Immerzeel and Linda Langen, Catalogue général du Musée Copte. The Icons, Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities 1994.

**van Moorsel, Paul and Mat Immerzeel, A Short Introduction into the Collection of Icons in the Coptic Museum in Old Cairo, in: S. Giversen, M. Krause, P. Nagel (eds.), Coptology: Past, Present, and Future. Studies in Honour of Rodolphe Kasser, Leuven: Peeters 1994, 35-44.

van Moorsel, Paul, The French Project "La peinture murale chez les Coptes", in: W. Godlewski (ed.), Coptic Studies. Acts of the Third International Congress of Coptic Studies, Warsaw, 20-25 August 1984, Warszawa: PWN 1990, 487-490.

van Moorsel, Paul, The Vision of Philotheus (on Apse-Decoration), in: M. Krause (ed.), Nubische Studien, Mainz: Von Zabern 1986, 337-340.

van Moorsel, Paul, A Different Melchisedech? Some Iconographical Remarks, in: M. Krause and S. Schaten (eds.), QEMELIA ... Studien Peter Grossmann zum 65. Geburtstag, Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1998, 329-342.

van Moorsel, Paul, La signification des icones dans le sanctuaire des eglises coptes, in: F. Bœspflug et N. Lossky (eds.), Nicée II 787-1987. Douze siècles d'images religieuses. Actes du colloque international Nicée II tenu au Collège de France, Paris (2-4 octobre 1986), Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 209-217.

**van Moorsel, Paul, On Coptic Apse-Compositions. Among Other Things, in: T. Orlandi and F. Wisse (eds.), Acts of the Second International Congress of Coptic Studies, Roma: CIM 1985, 367-371.

**Walters, C.C., Christian Paintings from Tebtunis, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 75 (1989), 191-208 + pl. XVI-XXIX

Walters, Colin C., A vision of Hell from Tebtunis, in, J. Rufflex, G. Gaballa and K. A. Kitchen (eds.), Glimpses of Ancient Egypt, Warminster: Aris & Phillips 1979, 190-195.

**Walker, Susan and Morris Bierbrier, Ancient Faces. Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt, London 1997 (various parts on e-reserve).

Sculpture

NOTE: Funerary stelae are not included. A complete annotated bibliography on funerary stelae will be provided on the website.

 

**Coptic Encyclopedia, s.v. Sculpture in Stone, Coptic

Beckwith, John, Coptic Sculpture 300-1300, London 1963 (pp. 16-27 on e-reserve).

Duthuit, Georges, La sculpture copte: statues, bas reliefs, masques, Paris 1931.

Parlasca, Klaus, Der Übergang von der spätrömischen zur frühkoptischen Kunst im Lich­te der Grab­re­liefs von Oxyrhynchos, Enchoria Son­der­band VIII (1978), 115*-120*.

Pomerantseva, Natalia, Spread of the Traditions of Ancient Egyptian Art on the Iconography of Coptic Ritual Sculpture (4th-6th Centuries A.D.), in: W. Godlewski (ed.), Coptic Studies. Acts of the Third International Congress of Coptic Studies, Warsaw, 20-25 August 1984, Warszawa: PWN 1990, 335-342.

Severin, Hans-Georg,   Problemi di scultura tardoantica in Egitto, in: Corsi di Cultura sull’arte ra­ven­na­te e bizantina XXVIII, Ravenna 1981, 315-336.

Severin, Hans-Georg,   Gli scavi eseguiti a Ahnas, Bahnasa, Bawit e Saqqara: storia delle in­ter­pre­tazioni e nuovi ri­sul­tati, in: Corsi di Cultura sull’arte ravennate e bizantina XXVIII, Ravenna 1981, 299-314.

Severin, Hans-Georg,   Zur Skulptur und Malerei der spätantiken und frühmittelalterlichen Zeit in Ägyp­ten, in: Martin Krause (Hg.), Ägypten in spätantik-christlicher Zeit. Einführung in die koptische Kultur. Spra­chen und Kulturen des christlichen Orients 4, Wiesbaden 1998, 295-338.

Severin, Hans-Georg, Frühdatierungen: Anmerkungen zu Urteilen über Figürliches und Ornamentales, in: M. Krause and S. Schaten (eds.), QEMELIA ... Studien Peter Grossmann zum 65. Geburtstag, Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1998, 317-328.

Severin, Hans-Georg, Pseudoprotokoptika, in: Cäcilia Fluck et al., Divitiae Aegypti. Koptologische und verwandte Studien zu Ehren von Martin Krause, Wiesbaden: Reichert 1995, 289-299.

Severin, Hans-Georg, Zum Dekor der Nischenbekrönungen aus spätantiken Grabbauten Ägypten, in: Begegnung von Heidentum und Christentum im spätantiken Ägypten. Riggisberger Berichte 1, Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung 1993, 63-85.

**Török, Laszlo, “‘A heap of stones’. Aspects of the architectural sculpture from Heracleopolis Magna” Bulletin de la Société d’Archéologie Copte 42 (2003), 73-98 and pls. XIV-XXI.

**Török, László, Notes on the Chronology of Late Antique Stone Sculpture in Egypt, in: W. Godlewski (ed.), Coptic Studies. Acts of the Third International Congress of Coptic Studies, Warsaw, 20-25 August 1984, Warszawa: PWN 1990, 437-484.

**Torp, Hjalmar, Leda Christiana: The Problem of the Interpretation of Coptic Sculp­ture with My­tho­lo­gi­cal Motifs, in: Acta ad Archaeologiam et Ar­tium Historiam Per­ti­nentia 4 (1969), 101-112.

Torp, Hjalmar, Coptic Mythological Reliefs: Pagan or Christian, Byzantina 2 (1973), 15-17.

**Thomas, Thelma K., An Introduction to the Sculpture of Late Roman and Early By­zan­tine Egypt, in: Florence D. Friedman (Hg.), Beyond the Pha­ra­ohs: Egypt and the Copts in the 2nd to 7th Cen­tu­ries A.D., Providence 1989, 54-64.

**Thomas, Thelma K.,Late Antique Funerary Sculpture. Images for this World and the Next, Princeton 2000 (ch. 1 on e-reserve).

Textiles

**Coptic Encyclopedia, s.v. Textiles, Coptic: Iconography of Woven Textiles; Textiles, Coptic: Iconography of Resist-Dyed Textiles; Textiles, Coptic: Types of Fibers; Textiles, Coptic: Manufacturing Techniques; Textiles, Coptic: Organization of Production

Baerlocher, M., Grundlagen zur systematischen Erfassung koptischer Textilien, Basel 1983.

Baginski, A. and A. Tidahr, Textiles from Egypt, 4th-13th Centuries, Mayer Memorial Institute (Exhibition 1981), Jerusalem 1980.

Beckwith, J., Byzantine Tissus, in: Actes du XIVe Congrès international des études by­zan­tines, vol. I, Bu­cha­rest 1971.

Beckwith, J., Coptic Textiles, CIBA Review 12, 133 (1959), 2-27.

De Jonghe, Daniel, Technologie du tissage copte, in: AA VV, Arts tardifs et chrétiens d'Egypte. Le Monde Copte 14-15, Limoges: Le Monde Copte 1988, 33-34.

Del Francia, Loretta, Tissus coptes d'Antinoe à Florence, in: L. del Francia (ed.), Studi in onore di Ugo Monneret de Villard. I. La valle del Nilo in epoca cristiana. Rivista degli Studi Orientali 58, Roma: Bardi 1987, 55-83.

Delvoye, Charles, Elements iconographiques gréco-romains dans l'art copte: le "chale de Sabine" au Musée du Louvre, Chronique d’Égypte 60 (1985), 48-55.

Du Bourguet, Pierre, Catalogue des Étoffes Coptes, Paris 1964.

Girgis, G. D. Coptic Textile Decorations from the 4th to the 7th Century A.D., Annales du Service des Antiquités Égyptiennes 65 (1983), 129-133.

Hodak, Suzana, Die ornamentalen koptischen Purpurwirkereien: Untersuchungen zum strukturellen Aufbau, in: Stephen Emmel et alii (eds.), Ägypten und Nubien in spätantiker und christlicher Zeit. Akten des 6. Internationalen Koptologenkongresses, Münster, 20.-26. Juli 1996, 2 vols. (= Sprachen und Kulturen des christlichen Orients, 6,1-2), Wiesbaden: Reichert 1999, vol. 1, 175-200.

Horak, Ulrike, Die koptischen Textilien im Johanneum/Graz, in: Stephen Emmel et alii (eds.), Ägypten und Nubien in spätantiker und christlicher Zeit. Akten des 6. Internationalen Koptologenkongresses, Münster, 20.-26. Juli 1996, 2 vols. (= Sprachen und Kulturen des christlichen Orients, 6,1-2), Wiesbaden: Reichert 1999, vol. 1, 201-208.

*Kybalova, L., Coptic Textiles, London 1967.

Lafontaine-Dosogne, Jacqueline, Les textiles coptes, in: AA VV, Arts tardifs et chrétiens d'Egypte. Le Monde Copte 14-15, Limoges: Le Monde Copte 1988, 31-32.

Linscheid, Petra, Kapuzen im spätantiken und koptischen Ägypten, in: Stephen Emmel et alii (eds.), Ägypten und Nubien in spätantiker und christlicher Zeit. Akten des 6. Internationalen Koptologenkongresses, Münster, 20.-26. Juli 1996, 2 vols. (= Sprachen und Kulturen des christlichen Orients, 6,1-2), Wiesbaden: Reichert 1999, vol. 1, 238-248.

Martiniani-Reber, Marielle, Soieries sassanides, coptes et byzantines. Ve-XIe siecles. (Lyon, Musée historique des tissues), Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux 1986.

Martiniani-Reber, Marielle, Tissus coptes. Tome 1, Textes et catalogue; tome 2, Planches, Collection du Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genéve, 1991.

Möhring-Müller, Angelika, Koptische Stoffe in der Kunstsammlung des Archäologischen Instituts der Universität Erlangen, Kunstspiegel 3 (1981) 5-39

Nauerth, Claudia, Koptische Stoffe, Frankfurt am Main 1986.

Nauerth, Claudia, Koptische Textilkunst im spätantiken Ägypten. Die Sammlung Rautenstrauch in Städ­tischen Mu­se­um Simeonsstift Trier, Trier 1978.

Nauerth, Claudia, Zu spätantiken Leichentüchern aus Ägypten - eine Skizze, in: Stephen Emmel et alii (eds.), Ägypten und Nubien in spätantiker und christlicher Zeit. Akten des 6. Internationalen Koptologenkongresses, Münster, 20.-26. Juli 1996, 2 vols. (= Sprachen und Kulturen des christlichen Orients, 6,1-2), Wiesbaden: Reichert 1999, vol. 1, 303-308.

Renner, Dorothee, Die koptischen Textilien in den Vatikanischen Museen, Wiesbaden: Steiner 1982.

Renner, Dorothee, Die spätantiken und koptischen Textilien im Hessischen Landesmuseum in Darmstadt, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1985.

Renner, Dorothee, Die Textilien in der Sammlung des Prinzen Johann Georg von Sachsen, Abhandl. Akad. Mainz, Geistes- und Sozialwiss. Kl., 1982.2, Wiesbaden: Steiner 1982.

Renner, Dorothee, Stoffe tardoantiche e copte da tombe egiziane, in: XXVIII Corso di Cultura sull'Arte Ravennate e Bizantina, Ravenna: Edizioni del Girasole 1981, 281-298.

Renner-Volbach, Dorothee, Die koptischen Textilien im Museo Missionario Etnologico der Vatikanischen Museen, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 1988.

Renner-Volbach, Dorothee, Spätantike und koptische Textilien im Erzbischöflichen Diözesanmuseum in Köln, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 1992.

Rutschowscaya, Marie-Hélène, Le materiel du tisserand egyptien d'apres les collections du Musee du Louvre, in: L. del Francia (ed.), Studi in onore di Ugo Monneret de Villard. I. La valle del Nilo in epoca cristiana. Rivista degli Studi Orientali 58, Roma: Bardi 1987, 153-178.

Rutschowscaya, Marie-Hélène, Les tissus coptes, Paris: Adam Biro 1990.

Rutschowscaya, Marie-Hélène, Réorganisation des collections textiles coptes du musé du Louvre - état et perspective, Musées et collections publiques de France 178 (1988), 38-42.

Schrenk, Sabine, Spätrömisch-frühislamische Textilien aus Ägypten, in: Martin Krause (Hg.), Ägypten in spätantik-christlicher Zeit. Einführung in die koptische Kultur. Sprachen und Kulturen des christlichen Orients 4, Wiesbaden: Reichert 1998, 339-379.

Stauffer, Annemarie, Spätantike und koptische Wirkereien. Untersuchungen zur ikonographischen Tradition in spätantiken und frühmittelalterlichen Textilwerkstätten, Bern: Lang, 1992.

Stauffer, Annemarie, Textiles d'Égypte de la Collection Bouvier, Bern: Benteli 1991.

Stauffer, Annemarie, Textilgeschichtliche Bemerkungen zu einer Kleiderliste des 7. Jahrhunderts aus Ägypten, in: Cäcilia Fluck et al., Divitiae Aegypti. Koptologische und verwandte Studien zu Ehren von Martin Krause, Wiesbaden: Reichert 1995, 315-320.

*Thompson, Deborah, Coptic Textiles in the Brooklyn Museum, New York 1971

**Thompson, Deborah, "Miniaturization" as a Design Principle in Late Coptic Textiles of the Islamic Period: Observations on the Classification of Coptic Textiles, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 22 (1985), 55-72.

**Thompson, Deborah, The Evolution of Two Traditional Coptic Tape Patterns: Further Observations on the Classification of Coptic Textiles, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 23 (1986), 145-156.

Trilling, J., The Roman Heritage. Textiles from Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean 300-600 A. D., Wa­shington, D. C. 1982.

Urbaniak-Walczak, Katarzyna, Koptische Stoffe aus der Sammlung des Nationalmuseums in Warschau: Geschichte der Sammlung, in: Stephen Emmel et alii (eds.), Ägypten und Nubien in spätantiker und christlicher Zeit. Akten des 6. Internationalen Koptologenkongresses, Münster, 20.-26. Juli 1996, 2 vols. (= Sprachen und Kulturen des christlichen Orients, 6,1-2), Wiesbaden: Reichert 1999, vol. 1, 401-410.

Wipszycka, Ewa, L’industrie textiles dans l’Égypte romaine, Wroclaw 1965.

Wulff, O. and W. F. Volbach, Spätantike und koptische Stoffe aus ägyptischen Grab­fun­den, Berlin 1926.

Wood

**Coptic Encyclopedia, s. v. Woodwork, Coptic

Bénazeth, Dominique and Gawdat Gabra, Boiseries du Musée Copte deposées au Musée National de Port-Said, Bulletin de la Société d’Archéologie Copte 33 (1994) 63-68

Rutschowscaya, Marie-Hélène, Musée du Louvre. Catalogue des bois de l’Egypte copte, Paris 1986.

Rutschowscaya, Marie-Hélène, Introduction a l'étude de l'artisanat du bois en Égypte chrétienne à travers la Collection du Musée du Louvre, in: J.-M. Rosenstiehl (ed.). Deuxième Journée d’Etudes Coptes (Strasbourg 25 mai 1984). Etudes Coptes II. Cahiers de la Bibliothèque Copte 3, Louvain: Peeters 1986, 81-92.

Rutschowscaya, Marie-Hélène, Les bois d'Antinoe au Musée du Louvre, in: T. Orlandi and F. Wisse (eds.), Acts of the Second International Congress of Coptic Studies, Roma: CIM 1985, 293-306.

Rutschowscaya, Marie-Hélène, La peinture sur bois dans les collections coptes du Musée du Louvre, in: M. Rassart-Debergh and J. Ries (eds.), Actes du IVe Congrès Copte, Louvain-la-Neuve, 5-10 septembre 1988. 2 vols, Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain 41, Louvain-la-Neuve: Institut Orientaliste 1992, vol. 1, 56-62.

                 Selected Sites

Abu Mena

Engemann, Josef, Das Ende der Wallfahrt nach Abu Mina, in: Begegnung von Heidentum and Christentum im spätantiken Ägypten. Riggisberger Berichte 1, Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung 1993, 161-166.

Engemann, Josef, Elfenbeinfunde aus Abu Mena/Agypten, 1-2, Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum 30 (1987), 172-186.

Grossmann, Peter, Abu Mina I. Die Gruftkirche und die Gruft, DAI Abt. Kairo AV 44, Mainz: Von Zabern 1989.

**Grossmann, Peter, Abu Mina. A Guide to the Ancient Pilgrimage Center, Cairo: DAIK 1986 (ch. 1 on e-reserve).

**Grossmann, P., “The Pilgrimage Center of Abu Mina”, in: D. Frankfurter (ed.), Pilgrimage and Holy Space in Late Antique Egypt, Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 134, Leiden 1998, pp. 281-304.

**Kosciuk, Jacek, Some Early Medieval Houses in Abû Mînâ, in: M. Rassart-Debergh and J. Ries (eds.), Actes du IVe Congrès Copte, Louvain-la-Neuve, 5-10 septembre 1988. 2 vols, Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain 41, Louvain-la-Neuve: Institut Orientaliste 1992, vol. 1, 158-167.

Kosciuk, Jacek, The Marketplace of the Medieval Settlement in Abû Mînâ, in: M. Krause and S. Schaten (eds.), QEMELIA ... Studien Peter Grossmann zum 65. Geburtstag, Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1998, 187-224.

Noeske, Hans-Christoph, Der spätrömische Münschatz aus der Gruftkirche von Abu Mina, in: Tessarae. Festschrift für Josef Engemann. Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum ErgBd 18, Münster 1992, 278-289.

Severin, Gisela and Hans-Georg Severin, Marmor vom heiligen Menas. Liebieghaus Monographie 10, Frankfurt 1987.

Alexandria

**Coptic Encyclopedia, s. v. Alexandria in Late Antiquity

*Haas, Christopher, Alexandria in Late Antiquity: Topography and Social Conflict. Ancient Society and History, Baltimore 1997.

McKenzie, J. Glimpsing Alexandria from Archaeological Evidence, Journal of Roman Archaeology 106 (2003), 35-61.

Rodziewicz, Elzbieta, Reliefs figurées en os des fouilles à Kom el-Dikka, Etudes et Travaux 20 (1978), 317-356.

Rodziewicz, Mieczyslaw, La ceramique émaillée copte de Kom el-Dikka, Etudes et Travaux 20 (1978), 337-345.

Rodziewicz, Mieczyslaw, Les habitations romaines tardives d'Alexandrie à la lumiere des fouilles polonaises à Kom el-Dikka, Varsovie: Centre d’Archéologie Méditerranéenne 1984.

Tkaczow, Barbara, Archaeological Sources for the Earliest Churches in Alexandria, in: W. Godlewski (ed.), Coptic Studies. Acts of the Third International Congress of Coptic Studies, Warsaw, 20-25 August 1984, Warszawa: PWN 1990, 431-436.

Tkaczow, Barbara, Topography of Ancient Alexandria (An Archaeological Map). Travaux du Centre d’Archéologie Méditerranéenne de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences vol 32 (1993), 1996.

Ashmunein/Hermopolis

Coptic Encyclopedia, s. v. Ashmunayn, Al-

Grossmann, Peter, Eine Gruppe von spätantiken Eckkapitellen aus Idâra (Hermopolis Magna), in: S. Giversen, M. Krause, P. Nagel (eds.), Coptology: Past, Present, and Future. Studies in Honour of Rodolphe Kasser, Leuven: Peeters 1994, 7-16.

Grossmann, Peter and Donald M. Bailey, Report on the Excavation in the South Church at Hermopolis-Ashmunayn, Journal of Coptic Studies 3 (2001), 45-62.

Spencer, A. J., D. M. Bailey and A. Burnett, British Museum Expedition to Middle Egypt. Ashmunein (1982). British Museum Occasional Paper 46, London: British Museum 1983.

Spencer, A. J. and D. M. Bailey, British Museum Expedition to Middle Egypt. Ashmunein (1981), British Museum Occasional Paper 41, London: British Museum 1982.

Spencer, A. J. and D. M. Bailey, British Museum Expedition to Middle Egypt. Ashmunein (1984), British Museum Occasional Paper 61, London: British Museum 1985.

Spencer, A. J. and D. M. Bailey, British Museum Expedition to Middle Egypt. Ashmunein (1985), British Museum Occasional Paper 67, London: British Museum 1986.

Spencer, A. J., Excavations at el-Ashmunein I. The Topography of the Site, London: British Museum 1983.

El-Bagawat

**Martin, M. J., The Necropolis of El Bagawat…, in: M. Immerzeel, J. van der Vliet, eds., Coptic studies on the threshold of a new millennium. Proceedings of the seventh International congress of Coptic studies, Leiden, 27 August-2 September 2000, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta; 133. Louvain (etc.): Peeters, 2004, 1415-1423.

Urbaniak-Walczak, Katarzyna, Die "conceptio per aurem": Untersuchungen zum Marienbild in Ägypten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Malereien in El-Bagawat. Arbeiten zum spätantiken und koptischen Ägypten 2, Altenberge: Oros Verlag 1992.

Bawit

**Coptic Encyclopedia, s. v. Bawit

Bénazeth, Dominique, Les avatars d'un monument copte: l'église sud de Baouit, in: M. Krause and S. Schaten (eds.), QEMELIA ... Studien Peter Grossmann zum 65. Geburtstag, Wiesbaden: Reichert 1998, 33-40

*Clédat, Jean, Le monastère et la nécropole de Bawit. Notes mises en œuvre et éditées par Dominique Bénazeth et Marie-Hélène Rutschowscaya. MIFAO 111, Le Caire 1999.

Iacobini, Antonio, Visioni dipinte. Immagini della contemplazione negli affreschi di Bâwît. Studi di arte medievale 6, Roma: Viella, 2000.

Krause, Martin and Klaus Wessel, Bawit, in: Reallexikon zur byzantinischen Kunst vol. 1 (1966), 568-583.

Lucchesi-Palli, Elisabetta, Geometrische und florale Ornamente in den Wandmalereien von Bawit. Untersuchungen zu ihrer Herkunft, Boreas 13 (1990) 113-133

Lucchesi-Palli, Elisabetta, Jagdszenen und dekorative Tierdarstellungen in den Wandmalereien von Bawit, Boreas 11 (1988), 165-176.

Lucchesi-Palli, Elisabetta, Orientalische Einflüsse in einigen Trachten der Wandmalereien von Bawit,, in: Byzantine East, Latin West. Art-Historical Studies in Honor of Kurt Weitzmann, Princeton Univ., 1995, 265-272

Torp, Hjalmar, Le monastère copte de Baouit. Quelques notes d'introduction, in: AA VV, Miscellanea Coptica Inst. Romanum Norvegiae. Acta ad Archaeologiam et Artium Historiam Pertinentia 9 Roma: Bretschneider 1981, 1-8.

Nitria, Kellia, Scetis/Wadi-Natrun

Coptic Encyclopedia, s. v. Dayr al-Baramus; Dayr Anba Bishoi (Scetis); Dayr al-Suryan; Kellia; Nitria; Scetis

AA VV, Les Kellia, ermitages coptes en Basse-Egypte, exhibition, Musée d’art et d’histoire, Genève 12 octobre 1989 – 7 janvier 1990, Genève 1989.

AA VV, Le site monastique copte des Kellia, Genève: Mission Suisse d'Archéologie Copte 1986.

Andreu, Guillemette, Georges Castel, and René-Georges Coquin, Sixième campagne de fouilles aux Kellia, 1979–1980, rapport préliminaire, Bulletin de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale 80 (1980), 347-368.

Andreu, Guillemette, René-Georges Coquin et al., Septième campagne de fouilles aux Kellia (avril 1981), rapport préliminaire, Bulletin de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale 81 (1981), 159-188.

Bridel, Philippe, et al, eds., Explorations aux Qouçoûr el-Izeila lors des campagnes 1981, 1982, 1985, 1985, 1986, 1989 et 1990. EK 8184, vol. 3. Louvain: Peeters 1999.

Bridel, Philippe, et al, eds., Explorations aux Qouçoûr Hégeila et ‘Éreima lors des campagnes 1987, 1988 et 1989. EK 8184, vol. 4. Louvain: Peeters 2003.

Brune, Karl-Heinz, Die Verkündigungsszene des Syrischen Klosters: Ergebnis der Entwicklung einer eigenständigen früchristlichen Bildsprache, in: Stephen Emmel et alii (eds.), Ägypten und Nubien in spätantiker und christlicher Zeit. Akten des 6. Internationalen Koptologenkongresses, Münster, 20.-26. Juli 1996, 2 vols. (= Sprachen und Kulturen des christlichen Orients, 6,1-2), Wiesbaden: Reichert 1999, vol. 1, 91-100.

*Burmester, O. E. Khs, A Guide to the Monasteries of Wadi ‘n-Natrun, Cairo 1954.

Coquin, René-Georges, Kellia: French Archaeological Activity, in: The Coptic Encyclopedia. Volume 5, 1398-1400. New York: Macmillan 1991.

Coquin, René-Georges et al., Huitième campagne de fouilles aux Kellia (avril 1982), rapport préliminaire, Bulletin de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale 82 (1982), 363-377.

Daumas, François, Les fouilles de Kellia, 1965–66, Comptes rendus de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1966), 300-309.

Daumas, François, Les fouilles de Kellia, 1966–67, Comptes rendus de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1967), 438-451.

Daumas, François, Les fouilles de Kellia, 1967–68, Comptes rendus de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1968), 395-408.

Daumas, François, Les fouilles de Kellia, 1968–69, Comptes rendus de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1969), 496-507.

Daumas, François, Les fouilles de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale de 1959 à 1968 et le site monastique des Kellia, Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft, Suppl. I, XVII, Deutscher Orientalistentag (1968), 1-7.

Daumas, François, Antoine Guillaumont et al., Kellia I, Kom 219. Fouilles exécutées en 1964 et 1965. Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale 1969.

Descœudres, Georges, Die Architektur der Kellia. Versuch einer vorläufigen Synthese, in: M. Rassart-Debergh and J. Ries (eds.), Actes du IVe Congrès Copte, Louvain-la-Neuve, 5-10 septembre 1988. 2 vols, Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain 41, Louvain-la-Neuve: Institut Orientaliste 1992 vol. 1, 168-170.

Descœudres, Georges, L’architecture des ermitages et des sanctuaries, in: Les Kellia. Ermitages coptes en Basse Égypte, 33–55. Genève: Musèe d’art et d’histoire de Genève, 1989.

Descœudres, Georges, Wohntürme in Klöstern und Ermitagen Ägyptens, in: M. Krause and S. Schaten (eds.), QEMELIA... Studien Peter Grossmann zum 65. Geburtstag, Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1998, 69-80.

*Evelyn-White, Hugh G., The Monasteries of Wadi ’n Natrun, Part I-III, New York 1926-33 (Part III, pp. 169-224 and pls. I; L-LXXIII on e-reserve).

Grossmann, Peter, Neue Beobachtungen zur al-'Adra'kirche von Dair as-Suryan, Nubian Letters 19 (1993), 1-8.

Guillaumont, Antoine, et al., Kellia: History of the Site, in: The Coptic Encyclopedia. Volume 5, 1397-1398. New York: Macmillan 1991.

Guillaumont, Antoine, Le site des Cellia (Basse Égypte), Revue archéologique (1964), 43-50.

Guillaumont, Antoine, Premières fouilles au site des Kellia (Basse Égypte), Comptes rendues de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1965), 218-225.

Guillaumont, Antoine, Une inscription sur la prière de Jésus, Orientalia Christiana Periodica 34 (1968), 310-325.

Guillaumont, Antoine, Histoire des moines aux Kellia, Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica 8 (1977), 187-203.

Guillaumont, Antoine, Le site des Kellia menacé de destruction, in: Prospection et sauvegarde des antiquités de l’Égypte, ed. N.-C. Grimal. Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire 1981.

Henein, Nessim Henry, and Michel Wuttmann, Kellia. II. L’ermitage copte QR 195. I. Archéologie et architecture. Plans. Fouilles de l’IFAO 41, Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale 2000.

Herbich, Tomasz, Darlene Brooks Hedstrom, and Stephen J. Davis, "A Geophysical Survey of Ancient Pherme: Magnetic Prospection at an Early Christian Monastic Site in the Egyptian Delta," Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 44 (2007), 129-137.

**Immerzeel, M., “The stuccoes of the Deir al-Surian”, in: M. Immerzeel, J. van der Vliet, eds., Coptic studies on the threshold of a new millennium. Proceedings of the seventh International congress of Coptic studies, Leiden, 27 August-2 September 2000, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta; 133. Louvain (etc.): Peeters, 2004, 1304-1320

Innemée, Karel C., New Discoveries at Deir al-Suriani, Wadi al-Natrun, in: Stephen Emmel et alii (eds.), Ägypten und Nubien in spätantiker und christlicher Zeit. Akten des 6. Internationalen Koptologenkongresses, Münster, 20.-26. Juli 1996, 2 vols. (= Sprachen und Kulturen des christlichen Orients, 6,1-2), Wiesbaden: Reichert 1999, vol. 1, 213-222.

**Innemée, Karel, The Iconographical Program of Paintings in the Church of al-‘Adra in Deir al-Sourian: Some Preliminary Observations, in: M. Krause and S. Schaten (eds.), QEMELIA ... Studien Peter Grossmann zum 65. Geburtstag, Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1998, 143-154.

Innemée, Karel C., New Discoveries at Deir al-Suriani, Wadi al-Natrun, in: Stephen Emmel et alii (eds.), Ägypten und Nubien in spätantiker und christlicher Zeit. Akten des 6. Internationalen Koptologenkongresses, Münster, 20.-26. Juli 1996, 2 vols. (= Sprachen und Kulturen des christlichen Orients, 6,1-2), Wiesbaden: Reichert 1999, vol. 1, 213-222.

Innemée, Karel C., New Discoveries at Deir al-Suriani, Wadi al-Natrun, in: Stephen Emmel et alii (eds.), Ägypten und Nubien in spätantiker und christlicher Zeit. Akten des 6. Internationalen Koptologenkongresses, Münster, 20.-26. Juli 1996, 2 vols. (= Sprachen und Kulturen des christlichen Orients, 6,1-2), Wiesbaden: Reichert 1999, vol. 1, 213-222.

Jarry, Jacques, Description des restes d’un petit monastère coupé en deux par un canal d’irrigation aux Kellia, Bulletin de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale 66 (1968), 147-155.

Kasser, Rodolphe, Exploration dans le désert occidental, Qouçour Hégeila et Qouçour ‘Ereima, Kêmi 19 (1969), 103-110.

Kasser, Rodolphe, Sortir du monde, réflexions sur la situation et le développement des établissements monastiques des Kellia, Revue de théologie et de philosophie 109 (1976), 111-124.

Kasser, Rodolphe (ed.), Kellia 1965. Topographie générale, mensurations et fouilles aux Qouçoûr ‘Îsâ et aux Qouçoûr el-'A'Abîd, mensurations aux Qouçoûr el-'Izeila. Recherches suisses d’archéologie copte, volume 1. Genève: Georg 1967.

Kasser, Rodolphe (ed.), Kellia. Topographie. Recherches suisses d’archéologie copte, volume 2. Genève: Georg 1972.

Kasser, Rodolphe et al., Explorations aux Qouçoûr er-Roubâ'îyât. Rapport des campagnes 1982 et 1983 avec une étude de vingt-quatre ermitages mis au jour en 1977 par le Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte, l'édition des inscriptions qu'ils ont livrées et l'inventaire des peintures murales documentées. EK 8184, vol. 2. Mission suisse d’archéologie copte de l’Université de Genève. Louvain: Peeters 1994.

Kasser, Rodolphe et al., Explorations aux Qouçoûr er-Roubâ'îyât. Plans et dépliants. EK 8184, vol. 2*. Mission suisse d’archéologie copte de l’Université de Genève. Louvain: Peeters 1994.

Kasser, Rodolphe et al., Le site monastique des Kellia (Basse-Égypte). Recherches des années 1981–1983. Mission suisse d’archéologie copte de l’Université de Genève. Louvain: Peeters 1984.

Kasser, Rodolphe et al., Survey archéologique des Kellia (Basse-Égypte). Rapport de la campagne 1981. EK 8184, vol. 1, fasc. 1–2. Mission suisse d’archéologie copte de l’Université de Genève. Louvain: Peeters 1983.

Leroy, Jules, Les peintures des couvents du Ouadi Natrun, Mémoires de l’Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale 101, Le Caire: IFAO 1982.

Rassart-Debergh, Marguerite, Bilan des fouilles aux Kellia: Peintures, in: Stephen Emmel et alii (eds.), Ägypten und Nubien in spätantiker und christlicher Zeit. Akten des 6. Internationalen Koptologenkongresses, Münster, 20.-26. Juli 1996, 2 vols. (= Sprachen und Kulturen des christlichen Orients, 6,1-2), Wiesbaden: Reichert 1999, vol. 1, 319-335.

Rassart-Debergh, Marguerite, Kellia: Paintings, in: The Coptic Encyclopedia. Volume 5, 1408-1409, New York: Macmillan 1991.

Bishop Samuil and Peter Grossmann, Researches in the Laura of John Kolobos (Wâdi Natrûn), in: Stephen Emmel et alii (eds.), Ägypten und Nubien in spätantiker und christlicher Zeit. Akten des 6. Internationalen Koptologenkongresses, Münster, 20.-26. Juli 1996, 2 vols. (= Sprachen und Kulturen des christlichen Orients, 6,1-2), Wiesbaden: Reichert 1999, vol. 1, 360-364.

Van Moorsel, Paul, Deir es Sourian Revisited, Nubian Letters 17 (1991), 1-13.

Van Moorsel, Paul, Treasures from Baramous. With Some Remarks on a Melchizedek Scene in: M. Rassart-Debergh and J. Ries (eds.), Actes du IVe Congrès Copte, Louvain-la-Neuve, 5-10 septembre 1988. 2 vols, Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain 41, Louvain-la-Neuve: Institut Orientaliste 1992, vol. 1, 171-177.

Van Moorsel, Paul, Une Annonciation faite à Marie au Monastère des Syriens, Bulletin de la Société Française d'Égyptologie 124 (Juin 1992), 5-23.

Weidmann, Denis, Kellia: Swiss Archaeological Activity, in: The Coptic Encyclopedia. Volume 5, 1400-1406. New York: Macmillan 1991.

Monastery of St Antony

**Bolman, Elizabeth, Monastic Visions: Wall Paintings from the Monastery of St. Antony at the Red Sea, New Haven 2002 (pp. 31-36 and 77-102 on e-reserve).

Coquin, René-Georges and Pierre-Henry Laferrière, “Les inscriptions pariétales de l’ancienne église du monastère de S. Antoine, dans le désert oriental”, Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale 78 (1978), 267-321.

van Moorsel, Paul, Les peintures du monastère de Saint-Antoine près de la Mer Rouge. La peinture murale chez les Coptes 3, Cairo: IFAO 1995.

van Moorsel, Paul, Les travaux de la mission de peintures coptes a St.-Antoine, Bulletin de la Société Française d'Égyptologie 97 (1983), 16-29.

Sohag Monasteries

Coptic Encyclopedia, s. v. Dayr Anba Bishoi (Suhaj); Dayr Anba Shinudah

Grossmann, Peter, New Observations in the Church and Sanctuary of Dayr Anba Sinuda - the So-called White Monastery - at Suhag: Results of Two Surveys in October, 1981 and January, 1982, Annales du Service des Antiquités Égyptiennes 70 (1984-5), 69-74.

**Mahmoud, Ali Mohamed and Peter Grossmann, On the Recently Excavated Monastic Buildings in Dayr Anba Shinuda: Archaeological Report, Bulletin de la Société d’Archéologie Copte 30 (1991), 53-63 and pls. I-II.

Meinardus, Otto F. A., Die Nischenfresken im Roten Kloster bei Sohag, Oriens Christianus 65 (1981), 148-162.

Minnesota in Egypt, maintained by Sheila McNally of the University of Minnesota

http://egypt.cla.umn.edu/default.htm

This website, which is still under construction, was set up in connection with an international project to study the archaeology of the White and Red Monasteries in Upper Egypt..

Saqqara

**Coptic Encyclopedia, s. v. Dayr Apa Jeremiah

Jeffreys, D.G., E. Strouhal, North Saqqara 1978-9. The Coptic Cemetery Site..., Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 66 (1980), 28-35.

Quibell, J.E., Excavations at Saqqara vol 4 (1908-9, 1909-10), The monastery of Apa Jeremias, IFAO, Le Caire 1912 (pp. 1-30 and 129-142 on e-reserve).

Rassart-Debergh, Marguerite, L'image de la femme au couvent Saint-Jérémie a Sakkara, Le Monde Copte 16 (1989), 48-56.

Rassart-Debergh, Marguerite, La decoration picturale du Monastère de Saqqara. Essai de reconstitution, in: AA VV, Miscellanea Coptica Inst. Romanum Norvegiae. Acta ad Archaeologiam et Artium Historiam Pertinentia 9 Roma: Bretschneider 1981, 9-124.

Rassart-Debergh, Marguerite, La pittura del Convento di S. Geremia a Saqqara. Temi e tecniche, in: XXVIII Corso di Cultura sull'Arte Ravennate e Bizantina, Ravenna: Edizioni del Girasole 1981, 255-280.

Rassart-Debergh, Marguerite, Quelques aspects de la peinture copte de Saqqara et ses antecédents, in: T. Orlandi and F. Wisse (eds.), Acts of the Second International Congress of Coptic Studies, Roma: CIM 1985, 283-292.

Rassart-Debergh, Marguerite, Quelques remarques iconographiques sur la peinture chrétienne a Saqqara, in: AA VV, Miscellanea Coptica Inst. Romanum Norvegiae. Acta ad Archaeologiam et Artium Historiam Pertinentia 9 Roma: Bretschneider 1981, 207-220.

van Moorsel, Paul and M. Huijbers, Repertory of the Preserved Wallpaintings from the Monastery of Apa Jeremiah at Saqqara, in: AA VV, Miscellanea Coptica Inst. Romanum Norvegiae. Acta ad Archaeologiam et Artium Historiam Pertinentia 9 Roma: Bretschneider 1981, 125-186.

Wietheger, Cäcilia, Das Jeremias-Kloster zu Saqqara unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Inschriften, Altenberge 1992.

Theban Monasteries

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