Sacri Lapides Aegypti

The Sacri lapides Aegypti project aims to study and document the processes of transformation of sacred spaces for worship, identity and memory from Pharaonic and Ptolemaic-Roman Egypt to Christian Egypt through topographical-functional analysis and the creation of a general catalogue, in digital form, of the temple structures transformed into Christian places used for the production and preservation of books, as well as their cultic function. Sacri lapides Aegypti is therefore the conceptual premise and the archaeological investigation of the ERC project PAThs, whose aim is to define a geography of Coptic manuscript production through the creation of a digital atlas, searchable thematically and chronologically.