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Provenance: Qasr el-Wizz
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: monastery, room II-E, south-west corner
Excavation no.
Present location: Nubia Museum, Aswan
Museum no.: Special Number 168 (Coptic Museum inv. no. 6566)

Medium: manuscript: codex
Technique: painted
Type of text: literary: apocryphal
Language: Coptic
Content: two apocryphal texts: Words of the Saviour under the Cross and Dance of the Saviour around the Cross
Date: probably 800–899
Notes

Material: parchment
Object dimensions: H: 16.7; W: c. 10
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Text colour: black
Lines: 9–13 (p. 23: 5)
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Description: codex of 17 leaves (34 pages)
Decorative elements: illuminated: crosses on pp. 1 and 34; decorative frame on p. 2 (beginning of text); illuminations on outer margin (pp. 6–8, 10, 12, 16, 18, 20, 24)
State of preservation: nearly complete; pp. 19–34 somewhat damaged

Date: probably 800–899
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Source: © G. Ochała
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Latest edition: Tsakos – Bull – Abercrombie – Thomassen 2013, pp. 193–209
Other editions: Hubai 2006; Hubai 2009; Suciu 2013, passim, esp. 30–33 (description), 157–160 (transcription of fol. 12v–17r), 170–171 (translation of fol. 12v–17r)

Other publications: Hughes 1965–6, pp. 10–13, fig. on cover; Scanlon 1968, pp. 65, 67–69 (description), fig. 4; Scanlon 1972, p. 18, pl. 11.1–2; Gabra 1993, fig. on p. 90; Gabra 1994, p. 263 with nn. 2–3; Hubai 2001, pp. 309–323, figs. 1–2; Emmel 2003, pp. 22–28, 52–53; Emmel 2005, pp. 86–95; Brakmann 2006, p. 293; Piovanelli 2012, passim; Dilley 2013, passim; Tsakos 2016, pp. 643–644; Obłuski 2019, table 5, sub 9; Łajtar 2020b, Appendix no. 10 (cf. pp. 189, 195–196)

Text 1754

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TrismegistosTM text 370289

Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.: FA 71/61–2
Present location: unknown
Museum no.

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: beginning of epitaph
Date: probably 600–899
Notes: 'One is God' type

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 22.5; W: 32.5; Th: 11.5
Text dimensions: not recorded
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Lines: 1
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Description: inscription incised on upper part of reused round-topped Meroitic stela, below decorative panel
Decorative elements: Meroitic decoration in relief: winged disc above, amphora below
State of preservation: object fragmentary: only upper left part preserved; inscription incomplete

Date: probably 600–899
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Source: I. Faras Greek, fig. 43
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Latest edition: Markschies – Hildebrandt 2012, pp. 510–511 (no. 96.6) (with wrong inv. no.)
Other editions: Jakobielski 1965, p. 163 (no. 1), figs. 12, 85; I. Faras Greek 48, fig. 43

Other publications: Michałowski 1965a, pp. 41–2; Jakobielski 1975a, p. 331

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TrismegistosTM text 370290

Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cathedral, south wall, reused block; above inscription B (DBMNT 1756) and to the left of C (DBMNT 1757)
Excavation no.: S. III (A) (neg. nos. Fa.61/2.0434a, Fa.61/2.0767)
Present location: not preserved
Museum no.

Medium: stone block
Technique: painted (dipinto)
Type of text: alphabet
Language: Coptic
Content: Coptic alphabet
Date: 1100–1299
Notes: perhaps the same hand as in inscription C (DBMNT 1757)

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 20.5; W: 133.5
Text dimensions: not recorded
Object colour: red
Text colour: black
Lines: 4
Height of letters

Description: Coptic alphabet painted on block reused in wall of church; inscription arranged in seven columns supplemented by one horizontal line at the end; apparently written by the same hand as inscription of one Petro (DBMNT 1757) located to the right and most probably forming one composition with it
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete

Date: 1100–1299
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Source: neg. no. Fa.61/2.0434a
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Latest edition: Jakobielski 1965, pp. 176, 178 (no. 10A), figs. 48, 94, 95
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Other publications: Michałowski 1963b, p. 248, pl. 59b; Michałowski 1965a, p. 80; Łajtar 2009a, n. 14 on p. 22

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TrismegistosTM text 370291

Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cathedral, south wall, reused block; below inscription A (DBMNT 1755)
Excavation no.: S. III (B) (neg. nos. Fa.61/2.0434a, Fa.61/2.0767)
Present location: not preserved
Museum no.

Medium: stone block
Technique: painted (dipinto)
Type of text: alphabet
Language: Coptic
Content: Coptic alphabet
Date: 1100–1299
Notes: the same hand as in inscriptions G, H, & I (DBMNT 1761–3)

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 20.5; W: 133.5
Text dimensions: not recorded
Object colour: red
Text colour: black
Lines: 8
Height of letters

Description: Coptic alphabet painted on block reused in wall of church; inscription arranged in two columns, each consisting of two vertical lines
Decorative elements
State of preservation: almost complete

Date: 1100–1299
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Source: neg. no. Fa.61/2.0434a
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Latest edition: Jakobielski 1965, pp. 176, 178 (no. 10B), figs. 48, 94, 95
Other editions

Other publications: Michałowski 1963b, p. 248, pl. 59b; Łajtar 2009a, n. 14 on p. 22

Text 1757

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TrismegistosTM text 370292

Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cathedral, south wall, reused block; to the right of inscription A (DBMNT 1755)
Excavation no.: S. III (C) (neg. nos. Fa.61/2.0434a, Fa.61/2.0767)
Present location: not preserved
Museum no.

Medium: stone block
Technique: painted (dipinto)
Type of text: visitor's inscription
Language: Old Nubian
Content: inscription of Petro, most probably serving as subscription of exercise in alphabet to the left
Date: 1100–1299
Notes: perhaps the same hand as inscr. A (DBMNT 1755)

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 20.5; W: 133.5
Text dimensions: not recorded
Object colour: red
Text colour: black
Lines: 1
Height of letters

Description: inscription painted on block reused in wall of church; apparently written by the same hand as Coptic alphabet (DBMNT 1755) located to the left and most probably forming one composition with it
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete, obliterated in right-hand part

Date: 1100–1299
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Source: neg. no. Fa.61/2.0434a
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Latest edition: NOM 1, no. 7, fig. 7
Other editions: Jakobielski 1965, pp. 176, 178 (no. 10C), figs. 48, 94, 95

Other publications: Michałowski 1963b, p. 248, pl. 59b; CIEN 7, no. 37

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TrismegistosTM text 370293

Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cathedral, south wall, reused block; above inscription C (DBMNT 1757)
Excavation no.: S. III (D) (neg. nos. Fa.61/2.0434a, Fa.61/2.0767)
Present location: not preserved
Museum no.

Medium: stone block
Technique: painted (dipinto)
Type of text: alphabet
Language: unidentified
Content: set of vowels
Date: 1100–1299
Notes

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 20.5; W: 133.5
Text dimensions: not recorded
Object colour: red
Text colour: black
Lines: 7
Height of letters

Description: inscription painted on block reused in wall of church in column
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete

Date: 1100–1299
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Source: neg. no. Fa.61/2.0434a
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Latest edition: Jakobielski 1965, pp. 176, 178 (no. 10D), figs. 48, 94, 95
Other editions

Other publications: Michałowski 1963b, p. 248, pl. 59b; Łajtar 2009a, n. 14 on p. 22

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TrismegistosTM text 370294

Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cathedral, south wall, reused block; below inscription C (DBMNT 1757)
Excavation no.: S. III (E) (neg. nos. Fa.61/2.0434a, Fa.61/2.0767)
Present location: not preserved
Museum no.

Medium: stone block
Technique: painted (dipinto)
Type of text: school exercise
Language: unidentified
Content: 3 letters
Date: 1100–1299
Notes

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 20.5; W: 133.5
Text dimensions: not recorded
Object colour: red
Text colour: black
Lines: 1
Height of letters

Description: inscription painted on block reused in wall of church
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete (?)

Date: 1100–1299
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Source: neg. no. Fa.61/2.0434a
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Jakobielski 1965, pp. 176, 178 (no. 10E), figs. 48, 94, 95
Other editions

Other publications: Michałowski 1963b, p. 248, pl. 59b; Łajtar 2009a, n. 14 on p. 22

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TrismegistosTM text 370295

Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cathedral, south wall, reused block; below inscription C (DBMNT 1757)
Excavation no.: S. III (F) (neg. nos. Fa.61/2.0434a, Fa.61/2.0767)
Present location: not preserved
Museum no.

Medium: stone block
Technique: painted (dipinto)
Type of text: school exercise
Language: unidentified
Content: 3 letters (?)
Date: 1100–1299
Notes

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 20.5; W: 133.5
Text dimensions: not recorded
Object colour: red
Text colour: black
Lines: 1
Height of letters

Description: inscription painted on block reused in wall of church
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete (?)

Date: 1100–1299
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Source: neg. no. Fa.61/2.0434a
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Jakobielski 1965, pp. 176, 178 (no. 10F), figs. 48, 94, 95
Other editions

Other publications: Michałowski 1963b, p. 248, pl. 59b; Łajtar 2009a, n. 14 on p. 22

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TrismegistosTM text 370296

Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cathedral, south wall, reused block; to the right of inscriptions C & D (DBMNT 1757–8)
Excavation no.: S. III (G) (neg. nos. Fa.61/2.0434b, Fa.61/2.0767)
Present location: not preserved
Museum no.

Medium: stone block
Technique: painted (dipinto)
Type of text: alphabet
Language: Coptic
Content: Coptic alphabet
Date: 1100–1299
Notes: the same hand as in inscriptions B, H, & I (DBMNT 1756, 1762–3)

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 20.5; W: 133.5
Text dimensions: not recorded
Object colour: red
Text colour: black
Lines: 4
Height of letters

Description: Coptic alphabet painted on block reused in wall of church; inscription arranged in seven columns with addition of horizontal line at the end
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete

Date: 1100–1299
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Source: neg. no. Fa.61/2.0434b
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Jakobielski 1965, pp. 176, 178 (no. 10G), figs. 48, 94, 95
Other editions

Other publications: Michałowski 1963b, p. 248, pl. 59b; Łajtar 2009a, n. 14 on p. 22

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TrismegistosTM text 370297

Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cathedral, south wall, reused block; below inscription G (DBMNT 1761), to the right of inscription F (DBMNT 1760)
Excavation no.: S. III (H) (neg. nos. Fa.61/2.0434b, Fa.61/2.0767)
Present location: not preserved
Museum no.

Medium: stone block
Technique: painted (dipinto)
Type of text: school exercise
Language: unidentified
Content: fragmentary school exercise (?)
Date: 1100–1299
Notes: the same hand as in inscriptions B, G, & I (DBMNT 1756, 1761, 1763)

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 20.5; W: 133.5
Text dimensions: not recorded
Object colour: red
Text colour: black
Lines: 4
Height of letters

Description: inscription painted on block reused in wall of church
Decorative elements
State of preservation: completem, but almost completely obliterated

Date: 1100–1299
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Source: neg. no. Fa.61/2.0434b
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Latest edition: Jakobielski 1965, pp. 176, 178 (no. 10H), figs. 48, 94, 95
Other editions

Other publications: Michałowski 1963b, p. 248, pl. 59b; Łajtar 2009a, n. 14 on p. 22

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TrismegistosTM text 370298

Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cathedral, south wall, reused block; to the bottom right of inscription H (DBMNT 1762)
Excavation no.: S. III (I) (neg. nos. Fa.61/2.0434b, Fa.61/2.0767)
Present location: not preserved
Museum no.

Medium: stone block
Technique: painted (dipinto)
Type of text: unidentified
Language: unidentified
Content: unidentified
Date: 1100–1299
Notes: the same hand as in inscriptions B, G, & H (DBMNT 1756, 1761–2)

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 20.5; W: 133.5
Text dimensions: not recorded
Object colour: red
Text colour: black
Lines: 1
Height of letters

Description: inscription painted on block reused in wall of church; apparently written in the same hand as other inscriptions on the same stone block (DBMNT 1756, 1761–2) and perhaps forming one composition with them
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete, but obliterated

Date: 1100–1299
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Source: neg. no. Fa.61/2.0434b
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Jakobielski 1965, pp. 176, 178 (no. 10I), figs. 48, 94, 95
Other editions

Other publications: Michałowski 1963b, p. 248, pl. 59b; Łajtar 2009a, n. 14 on p. 22

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TrismegistosTM text 370299

Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.: F 102/61–2 (neg. no. Fa.61/2.0500)
Present location: unknown
Museum no.

Medium: stela
Technique: incised & painted
Type of text: unidentified
Language: unidentified
Content: unidentified
Date: 600–1299
Notes

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 13.6; W: 25; Th: 5
Text dimensions: not recorded
Object colour
Text colour: red
Lines: 6
Height of letters

Description: fragment of stela
Decorative elements
State of preservation: fragmentary; no margin preserved; surface very much worn; text hardly legible

Date: 600–1299
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Offices & titles: monk (ⲙⲟⲛⲁⲍⲱ⸌ⲧ⸍): l. 6

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Source: neg. no. Fa.61/2.0500 (= Jakobielski 1965, fig. 96)
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Latest edition: Jakobielski 1965, pp. 178–9 (no. 11), fig. 96
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