Catalogue of early Christian antiquities and objects from the Christian East in the Department of British and mediaeval antiquities and ethnography of the British museum; (1901)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · London : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 175
the ruins of the town of Coptos. Inscribed lamps mostly come from Egypt. See V. Schultzc, Arch, der altclirisll. Kiinst, p. 299 ;de Rossi, BiilUltiiw, 1S66, p. 72, 1877, p. 70, 1879, p. 32, and pi. iii, fig. 2, 1880, p. 73, 1882,p. 109, 1884, p. 33; dAgincourt, Recueil de fragments de sculpture… … 806. Upper part of a lamp, pear-shaped, of buff ware. At the top a foliate designwith a number of small circles; round the sides the inscription: TOY ATIOY(A)BBA AIOY with a leaf at each end. L. 32 in. 1876. From Egypt. The inscription probably refers to a saint whose name began with A I, perhaps…
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