ABSTRACT
The article discusses the various kinds of inscriptions attested in Coptic epigraphy and presents a selection from the Coptic inscriptions that were discovered in the Wadi al-Natrun in the 1990s. Even the quite significant ones turn out to be interesting sources on local history.
First published in: Coptica 3 [= Proceedings of the Wadi al-Natrun Symposium (Wadi al-Natrun, Egypt, February 1–4, 2002), II] (2004), 187–207; republished in: M.S.A. Mikhail, and M. Moussa (eds.), Christianity and monasticism in the Wadi al-Natrun: Essays from the 2002 international symposium, Cairo/New York: American University in Cairo Press 2009, 329–49. The present version takes into account the “Errata” to Coptica 3.
