Coptic

ISBN: 9789088900747
Published by : Sidestone Press
The Coptic monastery and cemetery Deir el-Bachit stands on the hilltop of Dra' Abu el-Naga, the well-known necropolis in Qurna (West Bank, Luxor). It is the largest Coptic monastery complex preserved in Western Thebes and the first monastery th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415642316
Published by : Routledge Ltd
^DA detailed yet accessible evaluation of the importance of
Christianity to the identity of Egypt and the parallel
importance of Egyptian Coptic Christianity to the evolution of
Christianity as a whole... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781935488279
Published by : Coptic Orthodox Church Centre at Shephalbury Manor
In May 2008, the Coptic Orthodox Centre in Stevenage, UK organised a conference on Coptic Culture: Past, Present, and Future. The conference aimed to highlight the contributions and achievements of one of the most obscure periods of Egyptian h... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781409427889
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
The nineteen studies in this volume, produced over the last fifteen years, cover three areas in Christian Egypt's long and enduring history. First are eight papers dealing with record-keeping in both of the Christian Egyptian culture-carrying ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407308357
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
A collection of 29 papers on a wide range of Egyptological and Coptic subjects. Aspects of epigraphy, art history, architecture, artefactual studies, philology, and the history of Egyptology and Coptic studies are among the many topics discusse... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783895007880
Published by : Reichert Verlag
Series: Sprachen und Kulturen des Christlichen Orients
English Description:

The textile finds from Egypt provide a special quantitative and qualitative value to the ornamental purple textiles. They can be counted as a chief representative of ornamental work in Coptic art. In some res... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923714
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: ORIENTAL INSTITUTE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume: 30
Bir Umm Fawakhir is a fifth-sixth century AD Coptic/Byzantine gold-mining town located in the central Eastern Desert of Egypt. The Bir Umm Fawakhir Project of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago carried out four seasons of archa... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783895004261
Published by : Reichert Verlag
Series: Sprachen und Kulturen des Christlichen Orients
Volume: 13.2
English summary:
The catalogue refers to the publication of the first part of the textile collection of the museum kunst palast in Duesseldorf, prepared by Karl-Heinz Brune. Presenting 276 catalogue numbers, it completes in the main t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789774160936
Published by : American Univ. in Cairo Press
Volume two of the American University in Cairo Press's new history of the Coptic Orthodox Papacy takes the reader from the Arab conquest to the Ottoman conquest. Swanson combines narrative with analysis, providing a detailed critique of the sou... .... Learn More