Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 54 (2017) 261-286. © American Society of Papyrologists/Peeters. doi: 10.2143/BASP.54.0.3239884 CHRISTIAN INSCRIPTIONS FROM EGYPT AND NUBIA 4 (2016) Alain Delattre Université Libre de Bruxelles, Jitse Dijkstra University of Ottawa, and Jacques van der Vliet Leiden University/Radboud University Nijmegen Abstract. — Fourth installment of an annual overview of published inscriptions in Greek and Coptic from Christian Egypt and Nubia. The fourth issue of our epigraphical bulletin on Christian Egypt and Nubia covers the inscriptions published in 2016. The reader may note the unusually high number of items with earlier publication dates: three from 2013 (1, 49, 51), five from 2014 (2, 6, 53, 54, 56), and eleven from 2015 (4, 7, 8, 14, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 64). Some of these came to our attention or appeared too late to be included in the previous bulletin, others, espe- cially the older ones, we missed, despite our efforts to be complete. We would therefore like to reiterate the plea that we made to our colleagues in the introduction to CIEN 1 to kindly keep us informed of their publica- tions, in particular when they appear in less accessible venues or fall out- side our normal scope. 1. Egypt. Greek and Coptic funerary stelae. A. Muc, Śmierć i pogr- zeb w chrześcijańskim Egipcie (IV-VIII w.). Studium na podstawie źródeł literackich i archeologicznych [“Death and Burial in Christian Egypt (Fourth-Eighth Centuries). A Study on the Basis of Literary and Archae- ological Sources”] (Cracow 2013). A general survey, based on (mostly older) literature (English summary: pp. 371-374). Chapter 3 (135-307) deals with archaeological sources, including tombstones. Section 1.1 dis- cusses the textual elements of Greek and Coptic epitaphs (135-141: infor- mation about the deceased, epithets, dates, brief formulae, prayers, appeals to the living, cryptograms), the genre of the funeral laments (144-147), and the portrayal of death (147-151: as verdict, relief, sleep, a journey). Section 1.2 (152-188) deals with the decoration of the stones and its sym- bolism. Later sections review major archaeological sites, the situation of tombs and cemeteries, architectural types, and tomb equipment (including wooden labels: 261-267).