Agonistic terminology in Christian Nubia
Agonistic terminology in Christian Nubia
Author(s): Adam ŁajtarSubject(s): History, Archaeology, Ancient World, 6th to 12th Centuries
Published by: Fundacja im. Rafała Taubenschlaga
Keywords: Christian Nubia; Faras; Greek inscriptions; Coptic inscriptions; agonistic terminology; ascetic and monastic literature
Summary/Abstract: Two epitaphs of bishops of Faras of the ninth/tenth century display agonistic termsused to describe the life and the person of the deceased. The author discusses thebackground of this linguistic phenomenon and argues that the agonistic terminology might have reached Christian Nubia through the late antique ascetic and monastic literature.
Journal: U schyłku starożytności - Studia źródłoznawcze
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: XIX
- Page Range: 261-273
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English