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Provenance: Ghazali
Region: Makuria
Findspot: collected in 1979 by the Italian mission to Gebel Barkal; reportedly brought to light at Ghazali by a large flood passing through Wadi Abu Dom
Excavation no.
Present location: Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
Museum no.: not registered

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek/Old Nubian
Content: epitaph of ---ilo, priest and archimandrite
Date: 700–999
Notes: last line in Old Nubian

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 40; W: 33; Th: 7
Text dimensions
Object colour: grey
Text colour
Lines: 12
Height of letters

Description: Lower part of a rectangular slab, with complete bottom margin and large fragments of the side ones. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, crossing in corners, at the top and bottom.
Decorative elements
State of preservation: incomplete; upper part lacking

Date: 700–999
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ⲉⲛ ⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲓ ⲕ̄︤ⲉ̄︥
Transcription: "in the month of Epeiph, (day) 25" (l. 2)
Months: ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲓ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: priest (⳦): ll. 1, 12
archimandrite (ⲁⲣ[⸌ⲭ⸍]ⲙⲁⲛ⸌ⲇ⸍): l. 1
asti of Pidd (?) (ⲡⲓⲇⲇⲓⲛ ⲁⲥⲧⲏⲗ): l. 12 (Donadoni 1986: ⲡⲓⳝⳝⲓⲛ ⲁⲥⲧⲏⲗ; corr. Ochała 2016a)

Toponyms & ethnonyms: Pidd (?) (ⲡⲓⲇⲇⲓⲛ): l. 12 (Donadoni 1986: ⲡⲓⳝⳝⲓⲛ; corr. Ochała 2016a)

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: I. Ghazali 75
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Ghazali 75
Other editions: Donadoni 1986, pp. 226–7, fig. 3

Other publications: Łajtar 1992a, p. 121, no. 10; Tsakos 2009a, pp. 220–1, no. 3, fig. 2; Ochała 2016a, p. 1281 with n. 42

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TrismegistosTM text 104478

Provenance: Ikhmindi
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: south church
Excavation no.
Present location: Elephantine Museum
Museum no.: unknown

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: foundation inscription
Language: Greek
Content: foundation inscription of town of Ikhmindi; King Tokiltoeton appearing
Date: 550–599
Notes

Material: limestone
Object dimensions: H: 75; W: 85
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 15
Height of letters: c. 30

Description
Decorative elements
State of preservation: only left upper corner damaged

Date: 550–599
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
indiction
king's occurrence

Dating formulae: ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲓ ⲕ̄︤ⲁ̄︥ ⲓⲛⲇ ⲅ̄
Transcription: "Epeiph 21, in the 3rd indiction" (l. 13)
Months: ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲓ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: king (ⲃⲁⲥⲓⲗⲉⲱⲥ): l. 9
exarch of Talmis (= Kalabsha) (ⲉⲝⲁⲣⲭⲟⲩ ⲧⲁⲗⲙ): l. 11
curator (ⲕⲟⲣⲁⲧⲱⲣⲟⲥ): l. 14
craftsman (ⲧⲉⲭⲛⲓⲧⲁⲓ): l. 15

Toponyms & ethnonyms: Nobades (ⲧⲟⲩ ⲉⲑⲛⲟⲩⲥ ⲧⲟⲛ ⲛⲟⲃⲁⲇⲱⲛ): l. 10
Talmis (= Kalabsha) (ⲧⲁⲗⲙ): l. 11

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

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Source: Stenico 1960, fig. 4
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Deichmann – Grossmann 1988, pp. 81–88
Other editions: Donadoni 1959, pp. 458–465; SEG 18 724; Bingen 1961, pp. 431–433; SB 8 10074

Other publications: Leclant 1961, fig. 38, pl. 40 (cf. p. 193); Stenico 1960, p. 65, fig. 4 (facsimile); Vantini 1970, p. 53; Demicheli 1978, pp. 195–198; Munro-Hay 1982/3, pp. 95–96; Hägg 1990, p. 160; Van der Vliet 2002, pp. 191–194; CSCN, p. 102; Werner 2013, p. 56, n. 50 (translation); SEG 52 1818

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TrismegistosTM text 102435

Provenance: unknown
Region: unknown
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.
Present location: Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin
Museum no.: ÄM 13724

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of Elisabet
Date: 600–899
Notes

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 26,5; W: 21; Th: 6
Text dimensions
Object colour: yellow-brown
Text colour
Lines: 13
Height of letters

Description
Decorative elements
State of preservation: lower margin and left upper and lower corners damaged

Date: 600–899
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ⲉⲛ [ⲙⲏ]ⲛ[ⲓ ⲁ]ⲑⲩⲣ : ⲃ :
Transcription: "in the month of Athyr, (day) 2" (l. 6)
Months: ⲁ]ⲑⲩⲣ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Koerner 1966, pp. 44–6
Other editions

Other publications: Bull. épigr. 1967, 671

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TrismegistosTM text 104309

Provenance: Arminna
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cemetery I, grave 13.k.4
Excavation no.
Present location: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Museum no.: 7430

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of woman Christophoria
Date: 600–899
Notes

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 28.5; W: 23; Th: 3
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 12
Height of letters

Description
Decorative elements
State of preservation

Date: 600–899
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
indiction

Dating formulae: ⲉⲙ ⲙⲏⲛ ⲙⲏⲭ̄︤ⲏ︦ⲣ ⲕ̄︤ⲅ̄︥ ⲛ̄ⲓ̈ⲇ︦ⲟ̣̄︥/ ⲉ̄
Transcription: "in the month of Mecheir, (day) 23, in the 5th indiction" (ll. 5–6)
Months: ⲙⲏⲭⲏⲣ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 37
Other editions: Junker 1925a, p. 148 (no. 1); SEG 8 865; SB 5 8237

Other publications: Junker 1925b, passim; Till 1955, p. 174; Tibiletti Bruno 1963, passim; Žabkar 1967, p. 16; Richter 2013, p. 148

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TrismegistosTM text 104310

Provenance: Arminna
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cemetery I, grave 11.h.3
Excavation no.
Present location: unknown
Museum no.

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of woman (?) Masnigios
Date: 600–899
Notes

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 23; W: 18
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 12
Height of letters

Description
Decorative elements
State of preservation

Date: 600–899
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
indiction

Dating formulae: ⲉⲛ ⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲙⲏⲭⲏⲣ ⲕ̄︤ⲃ̄︥ ⲛⲓ̈ⲇ/ ⲉ̄
Transcription: "in the month of Mecheir, (day) 22, in the 5th indiction" (ll. 4–6)
Months: ⲙⲏⲭⲏⲣ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 38
Other editions: Junker 1925a, pp. 148–9 (no. 2); SEG 8 866; SB 5 8238

Other publications: Junker 1925b, passim; Till 1955, p. 174; Tibiletti Bruno 1963, passim; Žabkar 1967, p. 16; Richter 2013, p. 148

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TrismegistosTM text 104311

Provenance: Arminna
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cemetery I, grave 12.i.4
Excavation no.
Present location: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Museum no.: 7431

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of woman Eutogia
Date: 600–899
Notes

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 23; W: 17.5; Th: 3
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 10
Height of letters

Description
Decorative elements
State of preservation

Date: 600–899
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ⲉ ⲙⲏⲛⲏ ⲧⲏⲃⲏ ⲕ̄︤ⲍ̄︥
Transcription: "in the month of Tybi, (day) 27" (ll. 6–7)
Months: ⲧⲏⲃⲏ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 61
Other editions: Junker 1925a, p. 149 (no. 3); SEG 8 867; SB 5 8239

Other publications: Junker 1925b, passim; Till 1955, p. 174; Tibiletti Bruno 1963, passim; Žabkar 1967, p. 16

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Provenance: Arminna
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cemetery I
Excavation no.
Present location: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Museum no.: 8402

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: fragment of epitaph of ---rposi
Date: 600–899
Notes

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 18.5; W: c. 31; Th: 6.5
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 7
Height of letters

Description
Decorative elements
State of preservation

Date: 600–899
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
indiction

Dating formulae: ⲉⲛ ⲧⲏ ⲙⲏⲛⲉⲓ [---]ⲕ ⲏ : ⲓⲛⲇⲥ : ⲉ
Transcription: "in the month of Choiak, (day) 8, in the 5th indiction" (ll. 3–4)
Months: [---]ⲕ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 63
Other editions: Junker 1925a, pp. 149–50 (no. 5); SEG 8 869; SB 5 8241

Other publications: Junker 1925b, passim; Till 1955, p. 174; Tibiletti Bruno 1963, passim; Žabkar 1967, p. 16

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TrismegistosTM text 141563

Provenance: Arminna
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cemetery I, grave 12.g.9
Excavation no.
Present location: unknown
Museum no.

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Coptic
Content: epitaph of Theodoros
Date: 600–899
Notes

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 19; W: 13; Th: 2.5
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 15
Height of letters

Description
Decorative elements
State of preservation

Date: 600–899
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ϩⲛ̄ ⲥⲟⲩ ϫⲟⲩⲧϩⲙⲛ̄ ⲡⲁⲣⲙ̄ϩⲁⲧ
Transcription: "on day twenty-eight (of the month of) Phamenoth" (ll. 11–13)
Months: ⲡⲁⲣⲙ︦ϩⲁⲧ
Weakdays
Feasts