“BYU professor works with University of Utah library to translate 1700-year-old obituary”

“BYU professor works with University of Utah library to translate 1700-year-old obituary”

 

A girl's mummy portrait from the Fayyum
The mummy portrait of a girl from Greco-Roman Egypt ca. 120-150 AD — which is to say, perhaps a century prior to the death of Ama Helene.  (Wikimedia Commons)

 

This is interesting, and the obituary itself is, in its simple way, quite beautiful:

 

http://news.byu.edu/news/byu-professor-translates-jewish-woman’s-1700-year-old-obituary

 

 


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