Coptic Period

Period, culture, and style of Christian Egyptians; individuals and communities also engaged in many traditional Egyptian and Hellenistic practices.

Dates

c. 4th–7th century

Places

Africa > North Africa > Egypt

Basics Works of Art

Coptic Period

Period, culture, and style of Christian Egyptians; individuals and communities also engaged in many traditional Egyptian and Hellenistic practices.

Dates

c. 4th–7th century

Places

Africa > North Africa > Egypt

Basics Works of Art

Basics to get you started

Byzantine Egypt and the Coptic period, an introduction

Reimagining Africa’s place in Byzantine art history

Works of Art

Magical Text (Spell to Acquire a Beautiful Voice)

6th–7th century

Diversity and power: a late antique Egyptian textile

5th century

A Coptic Miscellany: how do monastic texts carry memory across time and place?

913–914

The Red Monastery, Sohag

c. 500 C.E.

Portrait of a Coptic Patriarch

1178–80

Abu Mena

c. 4th–7th century

Glass dish, Coptic

7th century

Coptic silk panel

early 8th century

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Coptic Period

Coptic Period

Basics to get you started

Byzantine Egypt and the Coptic period, an introduction

Reimagining Africa’s place in Byzantine art history

Works of Art

Magical Text (Spell to Acquire a Beautiful Voice)

Diversity and power: a late antique Egyptian textile

A Coptic Miscellany: how do monastic texts carry memory across time and place?

The Red Monastery, Sohag

Portrait of a Coptic Patriarch

Abu Mena

Glass dish, Coptic

Coptic silk panel

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