'In the Bosoms of Abraham': A Christian Epitaph from Nubia in the Brooklyn Museum

First edition of a Christian epitaph in Greek woman, Timothea, brought by Henry J. Anderson to the United States 1848 and now Brooklyn Museum. Analysis form text monument allows its epigraphic context be reconstructed, as part dispersed funerary assemblage northern Nubia, including distinctive textual formula wishing deceased repose “bosoms Abraham.”