Tag Archives: Coptic

Wanderings about Nubian Frontiers in Warsaw

Posted on December 30, 2019 by ergamenis

On the 18th of December I returned to Warsaw. Such a return concerns normally a Nubiological event, but it’s of course always a pleasure to see my friends there and enjoy the unique atmosphere of the town, highlighted specially the … Continue reading →

Posted in Egypt, Nubia | Tagged Arabic, Aswan region, ceramics, Coptic, Dayr Anba Hadra, Edfu, forts, Frontier Wanderings, graffiti, Hisn al-Bab, Ikhmindi, lamps, Lower Nubia, Medieval Nubian Texts, Monophysite North-East Africa, Old Nubian, Qasr el Wizz, Qasr Ibrim, textiles, Upper Egypt | Leave a comment

Telling stories

Posted on December 5, 2016 by ergamenis

There have appeared many reasons in the past weeks to return to blogging. I could have announced new publications, like the latest paper that Henriette and myself published on the medieval Sai cathedral in the Festschrift for professor Godlewski, or … Continue reading →

Posted in Nubia | Tagged Attiri, Benjamin Hendrickx, Book of Bartholomew, Chronicles, Coptic, Coptic Studies Seminar, maps, Norwegian Institute at Athens, Nubian Art, Ramolao Makhene, Story Telling, Thekla Sansaridou-Hendrickx | 3 Comments

Learning Reading and Writing in (Early) Christian Nubia

Posted on June 30, 2016 by ergamenis

Searching for the traces of a learning process in the past is not an easy task. For Greco-Roman Egypt (from Ptolemaic to Byzantine times), Raffaella Cribiore‘s book “Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt” is the most informative contribution. For the … Continue reading →

Posted in Nubia | Tagged Coptic, DBMNT, Greek, Learning Writing, Lists of words, Old Nubian, paleography, Qasr el Wizz, Raffaella Cribiore, Syllabaries | 3 Comments

the corner table

Posted on July 4, 2014 by ergamenis

Today I am posting a photo from my office at the Institute of Archaeology, History, Cultural and Religious Studies (AHKR) at the University of Bergen. It shows the corner where two chairs and a small table are placed so as … Continue reading →

Posted in Norway | Tagged Christian Bull, Coptic, KOP 101, Religious Literacy in Christian Nubia, the corner table | Leave a comment

Texts online

Posted on October 15, 2012 by ergamenis

The present entry is inspired by two posts in the blog by Alin Suciu, which raise different issues in regards with the transmission of texts and manuscripts through the Internet. The first entry was posted on October the 4th. Suciu … Continue reading →

Posted in Nubia, Old Nubian | Tagged Alin Suciu, Coptic, Nubian manuscripts, Qasr el Wizz, Robert De Rustafjaell | Leave a comment

Scripts and Fonts

Posted on April 4, 2012 by ergamenis

Inspired from discussions that followed the previous entry, we wished today to examine a complementary matter, which is none other than the fonts that exist or need to be developed in order to both write, read, and exchange files of … Continue reading →

Posted in Nubia, Old Nubian | Tagged Coptic, fonts, Old Nubian, scripts | 4 Comments

Archaeology of Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa

Posted on May 31, 2011 by ergamenis

In the previous entry, we referred to the plural involvement of the University of Bergen in African Archaeology, and it was at the end of the previous week that a very important figure of the field, professor Tim Insoll, visited Bergen … Continue reading →

Posted in archaeology, Nubia | Tagged Arabic, bergen university, Coptic, Greek, inscriptions, Islamic Archaeology, Old Dongola, post-Medieval Nubia, Sai Island, Sudan, Tim Insoll | 3 Comments