Art objects; Christian art and symbolism; Clergy - Clothing; Clergy; Coptic Church. Patriarch; Portraits; Priests
This is a portrait of an elderly Anba Basilios, a Coptic priest who was born in al-Qaṣr and died in Dishnā in 1966.
"Dechneh" was referenced in multiple writings by Dr. James M. Robinson, such as in The Biblical Archaeologist, Vol. 42, No. 4,...
Coptic manuscripts (Papyri); Papyrus; Nag Hammadi codices. XII
Negative number 61. Envelope labeled "XII 33", with an arrow pointing up for vertical fibers, then "J", an arrow pointing right, and "BYU III 67". Photo labeled "frm. 3 plate 101 placed 18 1x 73 JMR" [presumably a monogram for James McConkey...
Coptic manuscripts (Papyri); Papyrus; Nag Hammadi codices. XII
Negative number 62. Envelope labeled "XII, 34", with an arrow pointing right for horizontal fibers, then "J". Photo labeled "XII, [34]" with an arrow pointing right, then "XII,34", with an arrow pointing right, and "J", then "frm 3 plate 102 placed...
Aḥmad Īsm'āīl Ḥusayn al-Sayyid is the son of Īsm'āīl who was murdered by Muḥammad 'Alī and his brothers in revenge for the murder of their father. Aḥmad Īsm'āīl Ḥusayn al-Sayyid avenged his father's murder, in turn, by shooting...
The son of Nāshid Bisādah who bought what became the Jung Codex from the family of the discoverer. Jamāl inherited his father's position as a grain merchant in al-Qaṣr.
Muḥammad 'Alī stands at the site where his father was murdered in vengence. Muḥammad 'Alī's father was a night watchman who guarded irrigation equipment in the fields. On 7 May 1945 he killed a marauder while working. The next day he,...
Bottom of the Graeco-Roman polished red ware bowl of the fifth century C. E., used as the lid of the jar in which the Nag Hammadi codices were secreted. Acquired from Salib 'Abd al-Masīḥ at Chenoboskeia (al-Qaṣr). Salib received the bowl from...
Buildings; Carriages and carts; Dwellings; Naj' Ḥammādī (Egypt); Signs and signboards; Storefronts
The informal headquarters of the Nag Hammadi expedition was the home of Abrām Bibāwī, who lives on the second floor just above the pharmacy operated by his brother.
Graeco-Roman polished red ware bowl of the fifth century C. E., used as the lid of the jar in which the Nag Hammadi codices were secreted. Acquired from Salib 'Abd al-Masīḥ at Chenoboskeia (al-Qaṣr). Salib received the bowl from Khalīfah Alī...
Eid, Simone; Doresse, Jean, 1917-; Doresse, Marianne; Portraits, Group
In the home of Simone Eid. From left to right: Jean Doresse, Marianne Doresse and Simone Eid. Simone Eid is the widow of Albert Eid, the Belian antiquities dealer who took Codex I (the Jung Codex) from Egypt to New York and then to Bel
Robinson, James McConkey, 1924-; Portraits, Group; Institute of Papyrus (Cairo, Egypt)
The director of the Institute of Papyrus and James Robinson at the institute. The director was a retired general of the Egyptian army who introduced the art of making papyrus after it had died out.
Müller, Dieter, 1935 Mar. 12-; Layton, Bentley; Portraits, Group; Institute of Papyrus (Cairo, Egypt)
Dieter Müller, Bentley Layton, and the director of the Institute of Papyrus at the Institute. The director was a retired general of the Egyptian army who introduced the art of making papyrus after it had died out.
Robinson, James McConkey, 1924-; Robinson, Anita Weisbrod; Portraits, Group; Papyrus; Institute of Papyrus (Cairo, Egypt)
Anita and James Robinson, at right with their backs to the camera, and others look on while the director of the Institute of Papyrus talks about growing papyrus. The director was a retired general of the Egyptian army who introduced the art of...
Robinson, James McConkey, 1924-; Robinson, Anita Weisbrod; Institute of Papyrus (Cairo, Egypt); Portraits, Group
James and Anita Robinson and the director of the Institute of Papyrus at the institute. The director was a retired general of the Egyptian army who introduced the art of making papyrus after it had died out.
Meier, C. A. (Carl Alfred), 1903-; Labib, Pahor; Robinson, James McConkey, 1924-; Portraits, Group; Matḥaf al-Qiḅtī (Cairo, Egypt); Page, George H.
C.A. Meier, Director Emeritus of the Jung Institute; James Robinson; George H. Page, American patron of the Jung Institute who funded the acquisition of the Jung Codex; and Pahor Labib in front of the Coptic Museum.
Clothing and dress - Egypt; Egyptians; Habachi, Labib, 1906-1984; Scholars
Labib Habachi and other Egyptians gather. Dr Habachi (1906-1984) was an influential Egyptian egyptologist who spent thirty years in the antiquities department of the Egyptian government, with much of that time spent participating in digs.
