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TrismegistosTM text 102859

Provenance: Ginari (?)
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.
Present location: British Museum, London
Museum no.: EA1360

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

Material: limestone
Object dimensions: H: 18; W:
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 11
Height of letters

Description: rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by incised line (?)
Decorative elements
State of preservation: lower right corner broken off

Date: 600–899
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
indiction

Dating formulae: : ⲙⲏⲛⲓ̣ ⲫⲁⲣⲙⲟⲩⲑⲏ : ⲓ̈ ⲓⲛⲇⳤ : ⲇ :
Transcription: "in the month of Pharmouthi, (day) 10, in the 4th indiction" (ll. 4–6)
Months: ⲫⲁⲣⲙⲟⲩⲑⲏ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: deacon (ⲇⲓⲁⳤ): l. 3

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

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Source: O. Brit. Mus. Copt., pl. XI, no. 1360
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 46
Other editions: Birch 1841, p. 367 (no. 5); CIG 4 9128; Revillout 1885, p. 24 (no. 31); O. Brit. Mus. Copt. 1, p. 12 (no. 1), pl. XI (no. 1360); I. Lefebvre 649; Kraus 1930, pp. 119; SB 5 8734

Other publications: le Blant 1869, p. 81; Junker 1925b, p. 114; Tibiletti Bruno 1963, passim; Žabkar 1967, p. 17; Łajtar 1994b, p. 60

Text 494

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TrismegistosTM text 141571

Provenance: unknown
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.
Present location: Ägyptisches Museum/Papyrussammlung, Berlin
Museum no.: P. 13002

Medium: manuscript
Technique: painted
Type of text: document: legal
Language: Arabic
Content: release of slave (tadbir) Mubarak by Yaḥyā b. Naṣr, goldsmith
Date: 23 July 916
Notes: couple of identical witnesses appear also in P. Berol. 11279
all elements of date agree
bought by Borchardt in 1908

Material: leather
Object dimensions: H: 67.5; W: 25.5
Text dimensions
Object colour: red-brown
Text colour
Lines: 52
Height of letters

Description: lines 1–9 written in one hand, remaining lines written in forty-two different hands - witnesses
Decorative elements
State of preservation

Date: 23 July 916
Chronological systems: Era of the Saracens
day of the week
Islamic calendar

Dating formulae
Transcription: "on Tuesday, when nineteen nights passed of (the month of) Muḥarram, year three hundred and four" (l. 9)
Months: Muḥarram
Weakdays: Tuesday
Feasts

Offices & titles: goldsmith (al-ṣā’gh): ll. 2, 8, 44, 45

Toponyms & ethnonyms

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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Grohmann 1935, pp. 19–30, pls. 2–3
Other editions

Other publications: CSCN, pp. 165, 170, table 25 on p. 171

Text 495

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TrismegistosTM text 98650

Provenance: Kalabsha (?)
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.
Present location: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden
Museum no.: AM 22

Medium: stela
Technique: incised & painted
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of woman Manna
Date: 700–999
Notes

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 19.5; W: 14
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour: red paint in letters
Lines: 10
Height of letters

Description: rectangular slab
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete but for some surface damage in lower left corner

Date: 700–999
Chronological systems: indiction
Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ⲙ⸌ⲏ⸍ ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲭ ⲓ̈ ⲓⲛⲇⲕ ⲍ
Transcription: "in the month of Choiak, (day) 10, in the 7th indiction" (ll. 4–5)
Months: ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲭ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Boeser 1915, pl. 17
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Van der Vliet 2002, pp. 178–84
Other editions: Janssen 1842, p. 63 (no. 6); CIG 4 9131; Revillout 1885, pp. 23–4 (no. 29); I. Lefebvre 652; SB 3 6089; SB 5 8737; I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 47

Other publications: Leemans 1840, p. 300 (no. 133); le Blant 1869, p. 81; Boeser 1915, no. 32, pl. 17; Junker 1925b, p. 114; Tibiletti Bruno 1963, passim; Žabkar 1967, p. 17; Brakmann 2006, p. 301; SEG 52 1817

Text 496

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TrismegistosTM text 120451

Provenance: not Nubian
Region
Findspot
Excavation no.
Present location: collection Birmont, Paris; previously collection Hoffmann, Paris
Museum no.

Medium: stela
Technique
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of man Elia
Date
Notes

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Text colour
Lines: 6
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Description
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Date
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ⲫⲁⲙⲉⲛ[ⲱⲑ] ⲕ ⲁ
Transcription: "Phamenoth 21" (ll. 5–6)
Months: ⲫⲁⲙⲉⲛ[ⲱⲑ]
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Lefebvre 653
Other editions: de Ricci 1902b, p. 175, fig. on p. 176

Other publications: Žabkar 1967, p. 17

Text 497

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TrismegistosTM text 102865

Provenance: unknown
Region: unknown
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.
Present location: Museo Egizio, Turin
Museum no.: 23

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of woman Pista
Date: 600–999
Notes

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 18; W: 14.5
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 16
Height of letters

Description
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State of preservation

Date: 600–999
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
indiction

Dating formulae: ⲙ⸌ⲏ⸍ⲛⲓ ⲫⲁⲙⲉⲛⲱⲑ ⲓ̈ⲇ ⲓ̈ⲛⲇ/ ⲏ
Transcription: "in the month of Phamenoth, (day) 14, in the 8th indiction" (ll. 14–15)
Months: ⲫⲁⲙⲉⲛⲱⲑ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Source
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 24
Other editions: Seyffarth 1850, pp. 257, 261 (no. 9); Lumbroso 1869–70, p. 229; I. Lefebvre 659; SB 1 2034

Other publications: Rifaud 1830, pl. 186, no. 26; Catalogue Turin 1888, p. 312 (no. 7144); Weissbrodt 1909, pp. 20–3 (no. 29); Junker 1925b, p. 114; Tibiletti Bruno 1963, passim; van der Vliet – Worp 2015, pp. 36–8 (no. 1)

Text 498

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TrismegistosTM text 120454

Provenance: unknown
Region: unknown
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.
Present location: Museo Egizio, Turin
Museum no.: Provv. 3322 RCGE 48034

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of woman Elisabet
Date: 600–999
Notes

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 17.9; W: 14.5; Th: 2.4
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 16
Height of letters

Description: roughly rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed on all sides by incised line
Decorative elements
State of preservation: completely preserved

Date: 600–999
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
indiction

Dating formulae: ⲙⲏⲛⲏ ⲫⲁⲙⲉⲛⲱⲑ : ⲇ : ⲓⲛⲇⲕ/ · ⲅ ·
Transcription: "in the month of Phamenoth, (day) 4, in the 3rd indiction" (ll. 4–5)
Months: ⲫⲁⲙⲉⲛⲱⲑ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Source
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 58
Other editions: Seyffarth 1850, pp. 257, 261 (no. 10); Lumbroso 1869, p. 702; I. Lefebvre 660

Other publications: le Blant 1869, p. 84; Junker 1925b, p. 114; Tibiletti Bruno 1963, passim; Žabkar 1967, p. 17; Łajtar 1994b, p. 60

Text 499

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TrismegistosTM text 120455

Provenance: unknown
Region: unknown
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.
Present location: Museo Egizio, Turin
Museum no.

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of woman Drosis
Date: 2 June 699
Notes

Material: limestone
Object dimensions: H: 39; W: 22
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Lines: 16
Height of letters

Description
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Date: 2 June 699
Chronological systems: indiction (Egyptian)
Egyptian calendar
Era of Diocletian

Dating formulae: ⲉⲛ ⲙⲏⲛⲏ ⲡⲁⲩ̄ⲛⲓ ⲏ̄ ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕ̄/ ⲓⲃ ⲁⲡⲟ ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏⲧⲓⲁⲛⲟⲥ ⲩ̄︤ⲓ︦ⲉ̄︥
Transcription: "in the month of Payni, (day) 8, in the 12th indiction, (year) from Diocletian 415" (ll. 2–4)
Months: ⲡⲁⲩ̄ⲛⲓ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Source
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 43
Other editions: Lumbroso 1871–2, p. 213; I. Lefebvre 661

Other publications: Catalogue Turin 1888, p. 312 (no. 7143); Junker 1925b, p. 115; Tibiletti Bruno 1963, passim; Žabkar 1967, p. 17 with n. 29; van der Vliet 2002, p. 184; CSBE(2), p. 73; van der Vliet 2011a, p. 208; Brakmann 2006, p. 301; CSCN, table 11 on p. 71, pp. 74, 116

Text 500

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TrismegistosTM text 120456

Provenance: not Nubian
Region
Findspot
Excavation no.
Present location: Archiginnasio Antico, Bologna (?)
Museum no.

Medium: stela
Technique
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of Georgios
Date
Notes

Material
Object dimensions: H: c. 20; W: 1.27
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Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 4
Height of letters

Description
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Date
Chronological systems: indiction
Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ⲟⲅⲇⲟ ⲙⲓⲛⲓ ⲡⲁⲟⲓⲛⲓ // ⲓⲛⲇⲕ/ ⲇ̄
Transcription: "on the eighth (day of the) month of Payni, in the 4th indiction" (ll. 3–4)
Months: ⲡⲁⲟⲓⲛⲓ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Lefebvre 662
Other editions: Lumbroso 1874, p. 220, n. 1; Teza 1878, p. 6; Benigni 1899, p. 111

Other publications: de Ricci 1902a, p. 148, n. 1; Žabkar 1967, p. 17

Text 501

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TrismegistosTM text 141572

Provenance: Qasr Ibrim, Gebel Maktub
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: rocks on the hill east of Qasr Ibrim
Excavation no.: P25
Present location: Gebel Maktub, in situ (?)
Museum no.

Medium: rock
Technique: incised (graffito)
Type of text: visitor's inscription
Language: Greek/Coptic
Content: prayer for Iesou, son of Marturophorou
Date: 3 March 1046
Notes

Material: stone
Object dimensions
Text dimensions: not recorded
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Lines: ?
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Date: 3 March 1046
Chronological systems: Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ⲙⲉⲭⲉⲓⲣ ⲑ ⲁⲡⲟ⸌ⲙ⸍ ⲯⲝⲃ
Transcription: "Mecheir 9, (in the year) from the Martyrs 762" (ll. 6–7)
Months: ⲙⲉⲭⲉⲓⲣ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: catholic priest (⳦̣ ⲕⲁ⸌ⲑ⸍): ll. 1–2

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Qasr Ibrim Archives
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: unpublished; mentioned in Łajtar – van der Vliet 2013, p. 160
Other editions

Other publications

Text 502

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TrismegistosTM text 102866

Provenance: Meinarti (?)
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.
Present location: Bibliothèque naionale de France, Paris
Museum no.

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of Papasine, daughter of Tossine (?)
Date: 28 November 1243
Notes: date suggested by Bagnall – Worp 1986; Łajtar 1996c – 27 November, but the preceding year was a leap one, which is why 28 November is the correct date; lunar day incorrect – 6 days earlier than Alexandrian cycle

Material: limestone
Object dimensions: H: 49; W: 28; Th: 6
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Text colour
Lines: 23
Height of letters: 1

Description
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Date: 28 November 1243
Chronological systems: lunar calendar
Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲑⲝ̄ : ⲥⲉⲗⲗⲉⲛⲓ ⲓⲑ̄︥ ⲭⲟⲓ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲡⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍
Transcription: "(in the year) from the Martyrs 960, on the 19th moon (day), Choiak, the first" (ll. 21–2)
Months: ⲭⲟⲓ⸌ⲕ⸍
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Robert 1936, pl. XLI
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 12
Other editions: Neroutsos-Bey 1875, pp. 101–105; Dumont 1877, pp. 321–327, pl. 13 (reprinted in: Dumont – Homolle 1892, pp. 582–589); Weissbrodt 1905/6, pp. 5 (no. 3); I. Lefebvre 664; de Ricci 1909, pp. 154–161 (no. 2); Kaufmann 1917, pp. 146–7; Robert 1936, pp. 125–126 (no. 81), pl. 41

Other publications: Miller 1874, p. 97; de Rossi 1877, n. 3 on p. 32; Lefebvre 1902, p. 459; Weissbrodt 1909, pp. 12–13 (on date); Junker 1925b, p. 114; Monneret de Villard 1935–1957: 1, pp. 221–222; Monneret de Villard 1937, p. 64; Oates 1963, p. 163 (no. 13); Tibiletti Bruno 1963, passim; Žabkar 1967, p. 17 with n. 29; Bagnall – Worp 1980, p. 18 (no. 60); Bagnall – Worp 1986, passim (no. 11), esp. pp. 353–354; Łajtar 1993b, pp. 101–104; Bagnall – Łajtar 1994, pp. 11–12; Łajtar 1996c, p. 106 (no. 12); CSBE(2), pp. 313–314 (no. 17); CSCN, table 11 on p. 71

Text 503

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TrismegistosTM text 120457

Provenance: Tafa / Bab Kalabsha
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: (a): discovered in 1960/1 in chamber of tomb on north terrace of Bergheiligtum
(b): discovered in 1818 by Bankes in unknown circumstances
Excavation no.: (a): BK/29A
Present location: (a): unknown (b): British Museum, London
Museum no.: (b): EA408

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of Markou
Date: 1 March 764 or 1 March 766
Notes: 4th indiction would be correct

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: (a): H: 16.5; W: 29
(b): H: 24; W: 26.5; Th: 7.5
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: (a): 6; (b): 9
Height of letters

Description: two non-joining fragments of sandstone stela: fragment (a) – upper part, fragment (b) – bottom part; epigraphic field framed by incised line on all sides
Decorative elements
State of preservation: incomplete; fragment (a) with complete top margin and upper parts of both side margins; fragment (b) with almost complete bottom margin and lower parts of both side margins; lower right corner broken off

Date: 1 March 764 or 1 March 766
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
indiction
Era of Diocletian

Dating formulae: ⲙ⸌ⲏ⸍ ⲫⲁⲙ⸌ⲉ⸍ⲛⲱⲑ ⲉ ⲓⲛ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲃ ⲇⲓⲟⳤ ⲩ̄︤ⲡ︦ⲃ
Transcription: "in the month of Phamenoth, (day) 5, in the 2nd indiction, (year from) Diocletian 482" (ll. x+14 – x+15)
Months: ⲫⲁⲙ⸌ⲉ⸍ⲛⲱⲑ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

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Source: O. Brit. Mus. Copt., pl. IX, no. 408
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Ochała forthcoming (b), no. 1
Other editions: Birch 1841, p. 368, no. 7 (fragment [b]); O. Brit. Mus. Copt. 1, p. 10, no. 5, pl. IX, no. 408 (fragment [b]); I. Lefebvre 668 (fragment [b]); I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 23 (fragment [b]); Žabkar 1967, p. 19, no. 1, fig. 28, pl. XXXa (fragment [a])

Other publications: Grumel 1965, p. 96, no. 16 (fragment [b], on date); Ricke 1967, pp. 15–16 (fragment [a]); Bagnall – Worp 1981, p. 53 (fragment [b], on date); CSBE(2), p. 75 (fragment [b]); CSCN, table 11 on p. 72, p. 117 (fragment [b]); van der Vliet – Worp 2015, pp. 36–8, no. 6 (fragment [a])

Text 504

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TrismegistosTM text 120577

Provenance: Kalabsha (probably)
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.
Present location: collection Amherst, Norfolk
Museum no.

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of woman Athanasia
Date: 700–999
Notes

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: not recorded
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 13
Height of letters

Description
Decorative elements
State of preservation

Date: 700–999
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
indiction

Dating formulae: ⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲧⲩⲃⲓ ⲓ̈ⲁ ⲓⲛⲇ/ ⲍ
Transcription: "in the month of Tybi, (day) 11, in the 7th indiction" (ll. 9–10)
Months: ⲧⲩⲃⲓ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 41
Other editions: I. Lefebvre 804

Other publications: Tibiletti Bruno 1963, passim; Žabkar 1967, p. 16; Richter 2013, p. 148

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