Ostraca et papyrus coptes du topos de Saint-Marc à Thèbes. BEC 24. Proche et Moyen Orient fascinate both amateurs and specialists

fascinate both amateurs and specialists

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On the upper part of a rock face overlooking the drain of a small wadi appears a large series of drawings and texts attesting to the presence of Egyptian teams in the southwest of the Peninsula throughout a period of at least four centuries

ce Choix d’écrits a été édité par Denis Rousset avec la collaboration de Philippe Gauthier et Ivana Savalli-Lestrade

Ostraca et papyrus coptes du topos de Saint-Marc à Thèbes. BEC 24. Proche et Moyen Orient fascinate both amateurs and specialistsThe topos of Saint Mark, a religious establishment located on the hill of Gournet Mourra in western Thebes, was excavated by the IFAO in the early 1970s. The material found during the excavations included approximately 1,400 ostraca and a few dozen fragments of Coptic papyri. The selection of 440 texts published here illustrates, in its economic and administrative aspects, the life of this ecclesiastical center between the beginning of the 7th and the