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TrismegistosTM text 704721

Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cathedral, main nave, 2nd pillar from east in south row of pillars, west face; accompanying painting no. 7 (Christ with eparch)
Excavation no.: inv. no. 7 (painting)
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.: SNM 24353x

Medium: wall
Technique: painted (dipinto)
Type of text: commemorative inscription
Language: Greek
Content: inscription commemorating unidentified eparch
Date: probably 1025–1075
Notes

Material: plaster
Object dimensions
Text dimensions: not recorded
Object colour
Text colour: black
Lines: 2
Height of letters

Description: inscription painted to the left of head of a crowned figure
Decorative elements
State of preservation: fragmentary

Date: probably 1025–1075
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Offices & titles: eparch (ⲉ̣ⲡ̣ⲁ̣ⲣ̣⸌ⲭ⸍): l. 2

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Source: Michałowski 1967, pl. 13
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Source: Jakobielski 2013, fig. 3
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Latest edition: Jakobielski et alii 2017, p. 426 + fig. (no. 140)
Other editions: Michałowski 1967, pp. 165–6, pls. 12–13; Jakobielski 2013, pp. 331–2, figs. 2–3

Other publications: CIEN 4, no. 51

Text 2942

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TrismegistosTM text 704722

Provenance: Dongola
Region: Makuria
Findspot: monastery on kom H, north-west annex, room 27, east wall, north part; accompanying painting no. P.57/NW27 (Christ in medallion)
Excavation no.
Present location: Dongola, in situ
Museum no.

Medium: wall
Technique: painted (dipinto)
Type of text: legend
Language: Greek
Content: name of Jesus Christ serving as legend to his representation in medallion
Date: 1150–1199
Notes

Material: plaster
Object dimensions
Text dimensions: not recorded
Object colour
Text colour: black
Lines: 3
Height of letters

Description: inscription painted above head of Christ and on arms of cross inside his nimbus
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete

Date: 1150–1199
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Source: Martens-Czarnecka 2011, fig. MMC_057_01
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Latest edition: unpublished; mentioned in Martens-Czarnecka 2011, cat. no. 57, figs. MMC_057_01–3
Other editions

Other publications: Jakobielski 1998, p. 166, fig. 3; Martens-Czarnecka 1998a, pp. 88–90, fig. 10; Jakobielski 2001c, p. 149, fig. 9; Brakmann 2006, pp. 320–4

Text 2943

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TrismegistosTM text 832791

Provenance: Qasr el-Wizz
Region: Nobadia
Findspot
Excavation no.: 65-11-105
Present location: unknown
Museum no.

Medium: manuscript
Technique: painted
Type of text: document: list
Language: Coptic
Content: list of possessions of monastery of apa Dios
Date: 600–999
Notes

Material: unidentified
Object dimensions: not recorded
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Object colour: not recorded
Text colour: not recorded
Lines: not recorded
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Description: no photo available
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Date: 600–999
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Toponyms & ethnonyms: monastery of Apa Dios (unpublished form)

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Latest edition: unpublished; mentioned in Williams et alii 2013, p. 102
Other editions

Other publications: Williams et alii 2014, p. 127; Obłuski 2019, pp. 148, 151, 217

Text 2944

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TrismegistosTM text 832792

Provenance: Serra-East
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: central church, sanctuary; accompanying painting of enthroned Christ
Excavation no.
Present location: not preserved
Museum no.

Medium: wall
Technique: painted (dipinto)
Type of text: literary: biblical
Language: Greek
Content: John 1:1, serving as legend to painting of enthroned Christ
Date: 600–1299
Notes

Material: plaster
Object dimensions: H: ; W:
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Lines: 5
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Description: inscription painted on tablet held by the figure of enthroned Christ
Decorative elements
State of preservation: incomplete; strongly obliterated and hardly legible

Date: 600–1299
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Latest edition: unpublished; mentioned in Williams et alii 2014, p. 125, fig. 9
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Text 2945

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TrismegistosTM text 832793

Provenance: Qasr el-Wizz
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: not recorded
Excavation no.: 65-10-6
Present location: unknown
Museum no.

Medium: stela
Technique: incised before firing
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Coptic
Content: epitaph of Ioannes, hegoumenos of monastery of apa Dios
Date: 700–1199
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Material: terracotta
Object dimensions: not recorded
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Object colour: not recorded
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Lines: not recorded
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Description: no photo available
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Date: 700–1199
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Offices & titles: hegoumenos of monastery of apa Dios (unpublished form): l. ?

Toponyms & ethnonyms: monastery of apa Dios (unpublished form): l. ?

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Latest edition: unpublished; mentioned in Williams et alii 2014, p. 127
Other editions

Other publications: Obłuski 2019, pp. 148, 273

Text 2946

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TrismegistosTM text 832794

Provenance: Serra-East
Region: Nobadia
Findspot
Excavation no.
Present location: Museum of the Oriental Institute, Chicago
Museum no.: OIM E19567 + 19832

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: fragment of epitaph
Date: 700–1299
Notes: 'God of the spirits' type

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: ; W:
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Lines: 5
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Description: two joining fragments of slab; epigraphic filed framed by raised border; in upper border row of croses
Decorative elements
State of preservation: fragmentary; portions of upper and left-hand margins preserved

Date: 700–1299
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Latest edition: unpublished; mentioned in Williams et alii 2015, fig. 10
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Text 2947

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TrismegistosTM text 832795

Provenance: Serra-East
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.
Present location: Museum of the Oriental Institute, Chicago
Museum no.

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Coptic
Content: epitaph of Philoxenos, eparch and nauarchos
Date: 1025
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Material: stone
Object dimensions: H: ; W:
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Date: 1025
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Offices & titles: eparch (unpublished form): l. ?
nauarches (unpublished form): l. ?

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Latest edition: unpublished; mentioned in Williams et alii 2015, p. 139
Other editions

Other publications: Hughes 1963, p. 127

Text 2948

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TrismegistosTM text 832796

Provenance: Qasr Ibrim, Gebel Maktub
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: rocks on the hill east of Qasr Ibrim; above Text 2949
Excavation no.
Present location: Gebel Maktub, in situ (?)
Museum no.

Medium: rock
Technique: incised (graffito)
Type of text: visitor's inscription
Language: Coptic
Content: inscription left by Anyenni
Date: 900–1099
Notes

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

Description: 1 line of incised inscription; incised within earlier drawing of cow
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete

Date: 900–1099
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Source: Łajtar – van der Vliet 2013, fig. 3
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Latest edition: unpublished; mentioned in Łajtar – van der Vliet 2013, p. 166, fig. 3
Other editions

Other publications: Łajtar 2023, p. 207, fig. 7

Text 2949

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TrismegistosTM text 832797

Provenance: Qasr Ibrim, Gebel Maktub
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: rocks on the hill east of Qasr Ibrim; below Text 2948
Excavation no.
Present location: Gebel Maktub, in situ (?)
Museum no.

Medium: rock
Technique: incised (graffito)
Type of text: visitor's inscription
Language: Coptic
Content: inscription left by Mariakouda, cleric, son of Mariako
Date: 900–1099
Notes

Material: stone
Object dimensions
Text dimensions: not recorded
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 3
Height of letters

Description: 3 line of incised inscription
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete

Date: 900–1099
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Offices & titles: cleric (ⲕⲗⲏ): l. 2 (reading from the photo G. Ochała)

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Łajtar – van der Vliet 2013, fig. 3
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Latest edition: unpublished; illustration in Łajtar – van der Vliet 2013, fig. 3
Other editions

Other publications: Łajtar 2023, fig. 7

Text 2950

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TrismegistosTM text 832798

Provenance: el-Donga
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: area III-IV, block 4, room 7
Excavation no.
Present location: unknown
Museum no.

Medium: other
Technique: incised
Type of text: name of divine entity/saint
Language: unidentified
Content: monogram of Archangel Michael
Date: 800–1250
Notes: North Argin, 11 km N of Wadi Halfa

Material: ceramic
Object dimensions: H: ca. 35; L: ca. 30; W: ca. 60
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Lines: monogram
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Description: rectangular recipient (bathtub or chest?) with monogram incised on one of its sides
Decorative elements: edges of recipient decorated with zig-zag pattern; cross in relief on one longer side
State of preservation: object incomplete; inscription complete

Date: 800–1250
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Source: Teixidor – Garcia Guinea – van den Eynde Ceruti 1986–88, fig. 5
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Latest edition: Teixidor – Garcia Guinea – van den Eynde Ceruti 1986–88, p. 282, fig. 5
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Text 2951

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TrismegistosTM text 832799

Provenance: el-Donga
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: area VI
Excavation no.
Present location: unknown
Museum no.

Medium: ostrakon
Technique: painted
Type of text: unidentified
Language: Greek
Content: unidentified
Date: 800–1250
Notes: North Argin, 11 km N of Wadi Halfa
Arabic (DBMNT 2952) on other side

Material: ceramic
Object dimensions: H: ca. 11; W: ca. 10
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: not recorded
Height of letters

Description: roughly rectangular ostrakon
Decorative elements
State of preservation: incomplete (?)

Date: 800–1250
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Months
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Source
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: unpublished; mentioned in Teixidor – Garcia Guinea – van den Eynde Ceruti 1986–88, p. 285
Other editions

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Text 2952

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TrismegistosTM text 832800

Provenance: el-Donga
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: area VI
Excavation no.
Present location: unknown
Museum no.

Medium: ostrakon
Technique: painted
Type of text: unidentified
Language: Arabic
Content: unidentified
Date: 800–1250
Notes: North Argin, 11 km N of Wadi Halfa
Greek (DBMNT 2952) on other side

Material: ceramic
Object dimensions: H: ca. 11; W: ca. 10
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 8
Height of letters

Description: roughly rectangular ostrakon
Decorative elements
State of preservation: incomplete, lower part broken off; upper margin complete, left and right margins largely preserved

Date: 800–1250
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Source: Teixidor – Garcia Guinea – van den Eynde Ceruti 1986–88, pl. 12.1
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Latest edition: unpublished; mentioned in Teixidor – Garcia Guinea – van den Eynde Ceruti 1986–88, p. 285, pl. 12.1
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