The British Museum and its collections Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications, 1982 - Travel - 293 pages |
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The word 'Copt' was originally a designation for the indigenous population of
Egypt, as distinct from foreign settlers, but it ... A large number of mummy portraits
of the first to fourth centuries are displayed in the centre of the Coptic Corridor (
Wall-cases 1, 7), mostly coming from the extensive Graeco-Roman cemeteries in
the Faiyum 35 in Middle Egypt. ... The Hellenistic stelae include examples which
bear only short inscriptions in Greek, as well as more elaborate types, such as
one of ...
The word 'Copt' was originally a designation for the indigenous population of
Egypt, as distinct from foreign settlers, but it ... A large number of mummy portraits
of the first to fourth centuries are displayed in the centre of the Coptic Corridor (
Wall-cases 1, 7), mostly coming from the extensive Graeco-Roman cemeteries in
the Faiyum 35 in Middle Egypt. ... The Hellenistic stelae include examples which
bear only short inscriptions in Greek, as well as more elaborate types, such as
one of ...
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