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Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cathedral, west part of north aisle, north wall; below painting no. 43 (enthroned nursing Virgin), accompanying representation of cross; between DBMNT 1853 & 1859
Excavation no.: inv. no. 43 (painting)
Present location: National Museum, Warsaw
Museum no.: 234021

Medium: wall
Technique: painted (dipinto)
Type of text: legend
Language: Greek
Content: name of Jesus Christ and word 'cross' serving as legend to representation of cross
Date: 1000–1025
Notes

Material: plaster
Object dimensions
Text dimensions: H: 5; W: 9
Object colour
Text colour: black
Lines: 2
Height of letters

Description: inscription painted above and on both sides of upper arm of cross
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete

Date: 1000–1025
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Source: National Museum, Warsaw: https://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/496334
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Source: Jakobielski 1974, fig. on p. 297
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Latest edition: Jakobielski et alii 2017, p. 275, fig. on p. 274 (no. 80)
Other editions: Jakobielski 1974, pp. 294–5 (no. 25), fig. on p. 294

Other publications: Michałowski 1974a, pp. 228–29 (no. 52), fig. on p. 231; Catalogue Vienna 2002, pp. 87–9 (no. 21), fig. on p. 89; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, pp. 162–3, with fig. on p. 164; CIEN 6, no. 62

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TrismegistosTM text 370562

Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cathedral, north vestibule, west wall; accompanying painting no. 37 (Maiestas Crucis); to the right of DBMNT 2794
Excavation no.: inv. no. 37 (painting)
Present location: National Museum, Warsaw
Museum no.: 234018

Medium: wall
Technique: painted (dipinto)
Type of text: legend
Language: Greek
Content: names of Jesus, cross, and Four Living Creatures (Meliton, Agrammatap, Paramura, and Peioourouthion) serving as legend to painting of Maiestas Crucis
Date: 1000–1025
Notes

Material: plaster
Object dimensions
Text dimensions: H: ?; W: 18 + 10 + 14 + 11 + 18
Object colour
Text colour: black
Lines: 4
Height of letters

Description: inscription painted above and on both sides of upper arm of cross, as well as next to the Four Living Creatures
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete

Date: 1000–1025
Chronological systems

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Source: National Museum, Warsaw: https://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/496332
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Source: Jakobielski 1974, figs on p. 296
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Jakobielski et alii 2017, p. 266, figs. on pp. 265–267 (no. 76)
Other editions: Michałowski 1967, pp. 161–162, pl. 89; Jakobielski 1974, p. 294 (no. 23) + figs.

Other publications: Michałowski 1966a, pl. 15.2; Van Moorsel 1968, pp. 304–305 (no. 2); Michałowski 1974a, pp. 234–240 (no. 54), figs. on pp. 236–239; Catalogue Vienna 2002, pp. 89–91 (no. 22), fig. on p. 90; Vantini 2009, pl. between pp. 128–129; Tsakos 2014a, pp. 255–259; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, pp. 82–83, figs. on pp. 73 and 83

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TrismegistosTM text 370563

Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cathedral, narthex, niche in west wall; accompanying painting no. 93 (Virgin Eleusa)
Excavation no.: inv. no. 93 (painting)
Present location: National Museum, Warsaw
Museum no.: 234048

Medium: wall
Technique: painted (dipinto)
Type of text: legend
Language: Greek
Content: names of Mary and Jesus Christ serving as legend to their representations
Date: 1100–1199
Notes: I. Faras Greek 63 gives wrong museum no.

Material: plaster
Object dimensions
Text dimensions: 1: H: 11; W: 37
2: H: ?; W: 23
Object colour
Text colour: white
Lines: 1: 2; 2: 1
Height of letters

Description: two inscriptions painted accompanying Virgin Mary and Jesus Child: (1) to the left of Mary’s head; (2) to the right of Jesus’ head
Decorative elements
State of preservation: incomplete

Date: 1100–1199
Chronological systems

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Source: National Museum, Warsaw: https://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/496362
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Source: Jakobielski 1974, fig. on p. 299
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Jakobielski et alii 2017, p. 430, fig. on p. 429 (no. 141)
Other editions: Michałowski 1967, pp. 106–7, pls. 24–5; Gołgowski 1970, p. 393; Jakobielski 1974, pp. 296–7 (no. 29), figs. on p. 296; I. Faras Greek 63, fig. 57

Other publications: (selection) Michałowski 1964a, pl. 40a; Michałowski 1966a, p. 19, pl. 14.1; I. Faras Copt., p. 146; Michałowski 1974a, pp. 259–62 (no. 60), fig. on p. 260; Catalogue Vienna 2002, pp. 92–3 (no. 24), fig. on p. 92; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, pp. 122–3 (with fig.)

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Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cathedral, north wall left of south entrance; accompanying painting no. 102 (archangel)
Excavation no.: inv. no. 102 (painting)
Present location: National Museum, Warsaw
Museum no.: 149671

Medium: wall
Technique: painted (dipinto)
Type of text: legend
Language: Greek
Content: legend to painting of archangel, name lost
Date: 975–1025
Notes

Material: plaster
Object dimensions
Text dimensions: not recorded
Object colour
Text colour: black
Lines: 1
Height of letters

Description: inscription painted above archangel's head
Decorative elements
State of preservation: fragmentary; visible after discovery, now destroyed

Date: 975–1025
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Source: National Museum, Warsaw: https://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/480851
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Latest edition: Jakobielski et alii 2017, p. 373 (no. 121)
Other editions: Michałowski 1963b, p. 250, pl. 60; Michałowski 1967, pp. 129–30, pls. 49–50

Other publications: (seletion) Michałowski 1974a, pp. 196–7 (no. 41), fig. on p. 198; Catalogue Vienna 2002, pp. 95–7 (no. 27), fig. on p. 96; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, pp. 90–1 (with fig.)

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Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cathedral, main nave, 1st pillar from west entrance; accompanying painting no. 12 (St Epiphanios)
Excavation no.: inv. no. 12 (painting); neg. no. Fa.63/4.1177
Present location: National Museum, Warsaw
Museum no.: 234008

Medium: wall
Technique: painted (dipinto)
Type of text: legend
Language: Greek
Content: name of St Epiphanios serving as legend to his representation
Date: 1100–1250
Notes

Material: plaster
Object dimensions
Text dimensions: H: 13; W: 38
Object colour
Text colour: brown
Lines: 1 horizontal + 2 vertical
Height of letters

Description: inscription painted around the head of the saint
Decorative elements
State of preservation: fragmentary; right part lost

Date: 1100–1250
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Source: National Museum, Warsaw: https://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/496320
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Source: Jakobielski 1974, fig. on p. 298
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Latest edition: Jakobielski et alii 2017, p. 418 + fig. (no. 137)
Other editions: Jakobielski 1974, p. 296 (no. 28) + fig.; I. Faras Greek 83, fig. 73

Other publications: Michałowski 1974a, pp. 247–48 (no. 57), fig. on p. 249; Jakobielski 1975a, p. 330; Catalogue Vienna 2002, pp. 98–9 (no. 29), fig. on p. 98; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, pp. 142–3, fig. on p. 141

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Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: monastery east of cathedral
Excavation no.: F 360/62-3 (neg. nos. Fa.62/3.0124, Fa.62/3.1257)
Present location: National Museum, Warsaw
Museum no.: 234730

Medium: brick
Technique: painted
Type of text: subliterary
Language: unidentified
Content: names of Sts Bartholomew, Merkourios, George, Epimachos and Theodore
Date: 800–1199
Notes

Material: mud
Object dimensions: H: 12.5; W: 24.5
Text dimensions
Object colour: red
Text colour: white
Lines: 5
Height of letters

Description: baked brick with painted inscription
Decorative elements
State of preservation: object incomplete: one corner broken off; inscription complete

Date: 800–1199
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Source: https://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/618669
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Faras Greek 89, fig. 79
Other editions

Other publications: Jakobielski 1975a, p. 331; Catalogue Vienna 2002, p. 127 (no. 60), fig. on p. 128; Łajtar – van der Vliet 2017, p. 222; Łajtar 2022, fig. on p. 434a

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Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: monastery east of cathedral
Excavation no.: F 361/62–3 (neg. no. Fa.62/3.1258)
Present location: National Museum, Warsaw
Museum no.: 234731

Medium: brick
Technique: painted
Type of text: subliterary
Language: unidentified
Content: names of Sts Jacob, John, John the Baptist, Stephen
Date: 800–1199
Notes

Material: mud
Object dimensions: H: 12.5; W: 24.5
Text dimensions
Object colour: red
Text colour: white
Lines: 4
Height of letters

Description: baked brick with painted inscription
Decorative elements
State of preservation: object incomplete: one corner broken off; inscription incomplete: small lacuna at the end

Date: 800–1199
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Weakdays
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Catalogue Vienna 2002, no. 61
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Latest edition: I. Faras Greek 85, fig. 75
Other editions

Other publications: Catalogue Vienna 2002, p. 127 (no. 61), fig. on p. 128; Łajtar – van der Vliet 2017, p. 222

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Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: monastery east of cathedral
Excavation no.: F 362/62–3 (neg. no. Fa.62/3.1260)
Present location: National Museum, Warsaw
Museum no.: 234734

Medium: brick
Technique: painted
Type of text: subliterary
Language: Old Nubian
Content: names of Sts Jacob and Philip the Apostles
Date: 800–1199
Notes

Material: mud
Object dimensions: H: 14; W: 24
Text dimensions
Object colour: red
Text colour: white
Lines: 3
Height of letters

Description: baked brick with painted inscription
Decorative elements
State of preservation: object complete; inscription complete

Date: 800–1199
Chronological systems

Dating formulae
Transcription
Months
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Catalogue Vienna 2002, no. 62
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Faras Greek 88, fig. 78
Other editions

Other publications: Jakobielski 1975a, p. 331; Catalogue Vienna 2002, p. 129 (no. 62), fig. on p. 129; Satzinger 2002, fig. on p. 40; Łajtar – van der Vliet 2017, p. 222