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Analytical Study for Coptic Wall Painting in Mazar El-Khorogin Bagawat Tombs – Wady El Gaded – Egypt [PDF]

Shedet, 2014
This research is to study the chemical composition of the wall paintings in Mazar El- Khorog in Bagawat tombs for the first time. The paper presents the mineral structure for the support, plaster and pigments by using SEM- EDS, XRD, FTIR, and DTA.
Abeer F. ELHAGRASSY, Hemdan EL METWALY, Fatma M. HELMY, Sherif EL- NAGDY   +3 more
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The Coptic origins of the Yoruba

Theologia Viatorum, 2021
The theory according to which the Yoruba ancestors were Coptic Christians seemed unpopular amongst many Yoruba people despite the fact that the theory was proposed by the most revered Yoruba historian, Samuel Johnson.
Agai M. Jock
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The Revival of St Menas Veneration in the Twentieth-Century Egypt

Vox Patrum
In antiquity, St Menas was highly revered throughout the Christian world and attracted large numbers of pilgrims to the pilgrimage centre of Abū Mīnā. In twentieth-century Egypt, however, this saint became a figure of limited recognition in the Coptic ...
Hiroko Miyokawa
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A Critical Edition and Philological Analysis of the Text of Isa 44:6–45:25 Based on the Coptic Manuscript sa 52 (M 568), Other Manuscripts Written in the Sahidic Coptic Dialect, and on the Greek Text of the Septuagint

Verbum Vitae, 2020
This paper contains a critical edition and philological analysis of Isa 44:6–45:25, which were worked out primarily on the basis of the Coptic manuscript sa 52.2 and other available manuscripts of the Sahidic dialect.
Tomasz Bartłomiej Bąk
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Angels in Coptic tradition [PDF]

Shedet, 2019
This article begins with a general overview of Coptic Angelology. I give special attention to the accompanying angel, the angels of the altar and then to the archangels Michael and Gabriel. The tasks of the angelic figures were studied in detail.
Ibrahim SAWEROS
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Reading the "Apocryphon of John" as Genesis fan fiction

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2019
This reading of the late antique Coptic apocryphal work the Apocryphon of John (Ap. John) as Bible fan fiction finds that Ap. John uses the same transformative techniques as fan fiction, but that the manner in which these transformations are legitimized ...
Kristine Toft Rosland
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Revision of the Coptic block under ballot for the BMP of the UCS [PDF]

, 2004
This is a proposal to add characters for Coptic to the international character encoding standard Unicode. The characters were published in Unicode Standard version 4.1 in March 2005.
Emmel, Stephen, Everson, Michael
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Assessing Mobility Among Inferred Elites Interred in Crypts 1–3 on Kom H at Tungul (Old Dongola), Sudan

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the capital of Makuria, Tungul was a major sociopolitical center within medieval Nubia, being the seat of a bishopric and a monastic community. During the excavation of the Kom H monastery, three burial crypts (Crypts 1–3) were uncovered.
Robert J. Stark, Artur Obłuski, Robert Mahler   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geometric Patterns in Egyptian Architecture & Interior Design

ARCHive-SR, 2017
This study will examine the role of geometric patterns in selected examples of Egyptian architecture, interior architecture and art. Ancient Egyptian, Coptic, and Islamic periods are the selected historical ages from Egyptian heritage due to the ...
Heba-Talla Hamdy Mahmoud
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Remains of Gnomic Anthologies and Pagan Wisdom Literature in the Coptic Tradition [PDF]

, 2017
It is well known that a complete and satisfying “history of Coptic literature” is still a desideratum. Among the other causes contributing to the difficulty of such an enterprise are the fragmentary status of the codices which preserve the texts and the ...
Buzi, Paola
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