Trois stèles funéraires chrétiennes de Bilād al-Rūm, Sīwa (IVe/Ve s.)
Résumé
The article offers the reedition of three Greek funerary stelae uncovered during excavations carried out in the Siwite necropolis of Bilād al-Rūm by the local inspectorate of the SCA between 1997 and 2000. These stelae, quickly published by the inspector responsible for the excavations, A. al-Dumayrī, in a popular work, represent a valuable testimony to the existence of a local Christian community. In the light of the rare sources available for the knowledge of the diffusion of Christianity in this remote
oasis, the authors propose a historical and archaeological contextualisation followed by a standardised edition of the inscriptions, which comprises a study of the formulary and the onomastics which makes it possible to propose a dating around the 4th / 5th centuries.