Discovering Coptic Churches at Tebtunis
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Abstract
In 1931 Carlo Anti and Gilbert Bagnani excavated two Coptic churches at Tebtunis in the Fayyum. None of this was published but it has only recently come to light that reports, photos and plans survive in the Istituto Veneto, and that some of the artifacts were sent first to Rome and later transferred to the Turin Museum. In 1933 Bagnani excavated and recorded in a notebook a third church and its attached monastic outbuildings; significantly, the walls of its nave were covered with wall paintings. Above and below these representational scenes were depicted patterns presumably representing hanging tapestries, some of which were copied as watercolors by Gilbert’s wife, Stewart. In 1934 and in 1936, Bagnani had a series of aerial photos taken over the entire site. Through analysis of archival documents, historical photos and artifacts, coming from Anti’s and Bagnani’s campaigns in Egypt (1930-1936), which are now in Italy and Canada, an international team has begun working on the Coptic period in Tebtunis. The team has been able to discover the positions of the three churches, reconstruct their interior design, shed new light on the wall paintings preserved only in black and white photos, and to see the Coptic textile artifacts, now preserved in the Egyptian Museum in Turin, in comparison with the watercolor drawings of Stewart Bagnani.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".