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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 Theototi
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 ⲁⲑⲩⲣ ⲓ̈ⲍ ⲓⲛⲇ/ ⲇ
Transcription: "in the month of Athyr, (day) 17, in the 4th indiction 4" (ll. 5–7)
Months: ⲁⲑⲩⲣ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Source
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 57
Other editions: I. Lefebvre 805

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

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Provenance: Qasr Ibrim
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cemetery 193, surface
Excavation no.
Present location: Durham
Museum no.: GM 1964 561

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Coptic
Content: epitaph of man Taroue Poshsha
Date: 700–899
Notes

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 26.5; W: 20.9
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 10
Height of letters

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

Date: 700–899
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ϩⲛ̄ ⲥⲟⲩ ⲙⲏⲧ ⲛ̄ⲉⲡⲏⲡ

(transcription by Ochała)
Transcription: "on day ten of (the month of) Epeiph" (ll. 8–9)
Months: ⲉⲡⲏⲡ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Meltzer 1982, pl. XCI, 5
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Source: Meltzer 1982, pl. LXXV
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Latest edition: Meltzer 1982, p. 82 (no. 1), pls. 75, 91.5
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Provenance: Qasr Ibrim
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cemetery 193, grave 33, surface
Excavation no.: 193.33.2
Present location: Durham
Museum no.: GM 1964 560

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Coptic
Content: epitaph of Kerge, nun (?)
Date: 700–899
Notes

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 20.8; W: 21
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 8
Height of letters

Description: fragment of rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by incised line
Decorative elements
State of preservation: right part lacking; lower left corner damaged

Date: 700–899
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ⲓⲑ ⲙ̄ⲙⲟⲩⲥⲟⲩⲣⲏ̣ [---]

(transcription by Ochała)
Transcription: "[on day] 19 of (the month of) Mesore" (l. 7)
Months: ⲙⲟⲩⲥⲟⲩⲣⲏ̣
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: mother (= nun?) (ⲧⲙ̄ⲙⲁ[ⲁⲩ]): l. 6

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Meltzer 1982, pl. XCI, 1
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Source: Meltzer 1982, pl. LXXVI
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Meltzer 1982, p. 82 (no. 2), pls. 76, 91.1
Other editions

Other publications: I. QI 39, p. 150

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Provenance: Qasr Ibrim
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cemetery 193, surface
Excavation no.
Present location: unknown
Museum no.

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Coptic
Content: epitaph of woman Helleni
Date: 700–899
Notes: Meltzer 1982 – 'the seventeenth day of Pharmouthi'

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 22.5; W: 17.8
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 13
Height of letters

Description: rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by incised line
Decorative elements
State of preservation: upper margin uneven (destroyed?); lower right and left corners damaged

Date: 700–899
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ⲥⲟⲩ ⲙ︤ⲛⲧⲏ ⲙ︤ⲡⲁⲣⲙⲟⲩⲑⲓ … ⲫⲁⲣⲙⲩ︥̄ ⲓⲉ

(transcription by Ochała)
Transcription: "day fifteen of (the month of) Pharmouthi" (ll. 6–7)
"Pharmouthi 15" (l. 13)
Months: ⲡⲁⲣⲙⲟⲩⲑⲓ, ⲫⲁⲣⲙⲩ︥̄
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Meltzer 1982, pl. XCI, 4
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Source: Meltzer 1982, pl. LXXVI
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Meltzer 1982, p. 83 (no. 3), pls. 76, 91.4
Other editions

Other publications: Ochała 2011b, p. 221 (no. 3)

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Provenance: Qasr Ibrim
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cemetery 192, surface
Excavation no.
Present location: unknown
Museum no.

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Coptic
Content: epitaph of woman R.mata
Date: 800–999
Notes

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 34.1; W: 26.9
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 11
Height of letters

Description: rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by raised border; ruling; last line written on lower border
Decorative elements: borders of epigraphic field on right and left sides carved in form of fluted columns with bases and decorative capitals
State of preservation: surface somewhat worn, especially on left and upper borders

Date: 800–999
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
indiction

Dating formulae: ⲙ⸌ⲏ⸍ ⲑⲱ︦ⲑ ⲕⲅ ⲓⲛ̄︥ ⲑ

(transcription by Ochała)
Transcription: "in the month of Thoth, (day) 23, in the 9th indiction" (l. 8)
Months: ⲑⲱ︦ⲑ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Meltzer 1982, pl. XCI, 3
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Source: Meltzer 1982, pl. LXXVI
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Meltzer 1982, p. 83 (no. 5), pls. 76, 91.3
Other editions

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Provenance: Qasr Ibrim
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cemetery 193, surface
Excavation no.
Present location: Durham
Museum no.: GM 1964 559

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Coptic
Content: fragment of epitaph of unidentified woman
Date: 700–899
Notes

Material: unidentified
Object dimensions: not recorded
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 5
Height of letters

Description: fragment of central part of slab
Decorative elements
State of preservation: fragment of right margin preserved

Date: 700–899
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ⲥⲟⲩ [ϣ]ⲙ̣ⲟ̣ⲩ̣ⲛ̣ ⲛ̣̄ⲡⲁⲡⲉ

(transcription by Ochała)
Transcription: "day eight of Phaophi" (ll. 4–5)
Months: ⲡⲁⲡⲉ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Meltzer 1982, pl. XCI, 6
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Meltzer 1982, p. 84 (no. 6), pl. 91.6
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Provenance: Meinarti
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: building VII, resting face up on floor
Excavation no.: 6-K-3/147
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.: SNM 18110

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Arabic
Content: epitaph of Fāṭima
Date: 26 May 1061
Notes: the same hand as DBMNT 598
Coptic month
26 May fell on Saturday

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: not recorded
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 12
Height of letters

Description: rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by incised line on 3 sides apart from bottom
Decorative elements: upper margin decorated with pattern of triangles, with star of David in centre
State of preservation: complete, but put together from 2 parts - crack visible in central part

Date: 26 May 1061
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
day of the week
Era of the Saracens

Dating formulae
Transcription: "on Sunday, first day of (the month of) Payni, year three and fifty and four hundred" (ll. 9–11)
Months: Bauna
Weakdays: Sunday
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Nigm el-Din Mohammed Sherif 1964, pl. 53
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Nigm el-Din Mohammed Sherif 1964, p. 249, pl. 53 (= TEI 26109)
Other editions

Other publications: Adams 1964, pp. 236, 248; Adams 2001, p. 100; Adams 2002, pp. 79–80, pl. 20d (1); Adams 2003, pp. 72–73, pl. 17c; Intisar Soghayroun Elzein 2004, pl. 2b; Vantini 2009, fig. on p. 103 (wrong date); CSCN, p. 166, table 25 on p. 171

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Provenance: Arminna
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: in debris on bench surrounding small church
Excavation no.: 119
Present location: Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Museum no.: JdE 89739

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek/Old Nubian
Content: epitaph of Mariio
Date: 1 June 1032
Notes: 'God of the spirits' type
ll. 21–2 in Old Nubian; Oates 1963 – 10 June; date corrected by Grumel 1965; Oates read Payni 17 - in fact 7 on stone

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 45; W: 35; Th: 6.5-7
Text dimensions: H: 35; W: 25
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 23
Height of letters: c. 1

Description: roughly rectangular slab with slightly rounded bottom edge; epigraphic field framed by raised border
Decorative elements: margins decorate wit irregular X-pattern
State of preservation: complete; margins somewhat worn

Date: 1 June 1032
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
Era of the Martyrs

Dating formulae: ⲡⲁⲏⲛⲏ ·ⲍ̇ ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣⲧⲏⲣⲟⲛⲁ ⲯⲙ︦ⲏ

(corrected by Ochała)
Transcription: "Payni 7, (in the year) from the Martyrs 748" (ll. 22–3)
Months: ⲡⲁⲏⲛⲏ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Trigger 1970, il. 347
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Trigger 1967, pp 19–20 (no. 41), 85, pl. 8d + ; Łajtar – Ochała 2023, pp. 73–76 (no. 5), fig. 5 (ll 21–23)
Other editions: Oates 1963, passim (p. 162, no. 3), pl. 27

Other publications: Grumel 1965, pp. 87–88 (no. 6); Simpson 1967, pp. 181–182, pl. 6; Žabkar 1967, p. 16; Trigger 1970, p. 377, il. 347; Hägg 1982, pp. 104–105; Bagnall – Worp 1986, p. 354; Łajtar 1996c, p. 105 (no. 5); CSBE(2), p. 84; CSCN, pp. 68–70, table 11 on p. 72

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Provenance: Komangana
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cemetery 178; reused to block entrance to tomb 16, inscribed surface turned inwards and upside down
Excavation no.: 178/16:2
Present location: unknown
Museum no.

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Arabic
Content: epitaph of Maḥmūda
Date: 27 August 998
Notes: near Debeira (labelled 'Qoddi' in TEI)
all elements of date agree

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 48.5; W: 25
Text dimensions
Object colour: brown
Text colour
Lines: 13
Height of letters

Description: rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by raised border
Decorative elements
State of preservation: lower left corner broken off

Date: 27 August 998
Chronological systems: day of the week
Era of the Saracens
Islamic calendar

Dating formulae
Transcription: "on Saturday, on the first day of (the month of) Ṣafar, year three hundred eighty-eight" (ll. 9–13)
Months: Ṣafar
Weakdays: Saturday
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Säve-Söderbergh 1982, pl. 107, 2
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Source: Säve-Söderbergh 1982, fig. on p. 53
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Latest edition: Säve-Söderbergh 1981, pp. 53–4, fig. on p. 53, pls. 46, 107.2 (= TEI 26098)
Other editions: Holthoer – Salonen – Ziliacus 1964, pp. 10–11

Other publications: Säve-Söderbergh 1964, p. 39, pl. 7 (right); Säve-Söderbergh 1970, p. 238; Säve-Söderbergh – Englund – Nordström 1981, p. 135; CSCN, table 25 on p. 171

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Provenance: Komangana
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cemetery 178; reused to block entrance to tomb 18, inscribed surface turned inwards and upside down; found together with DBMNT 5
Excavation no.: 178/18:2
Present location: unknown
Museum no.

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Arabic
Content: epitaph of Isḥaq
Date: 18 September 977–16 October 977
Notes: near Debeira (labelled Qoddi in TEI)
Säve-Söderbergh 1982 – AD 978; Holthoer – Salonen – Ziliacus 1964 – correctly

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 58.5; W: 35
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 11
Height of letters

Description: rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by raised border
Decorative elements
State of preservation: seemingly complete

Date: 18 September 977–16 October 977
Chronological systems: Era of the Saracens
Islamic calendar

Dating formulae
Transcription: "on the day [ ] of (the month of) Ṣafar, year three hundred sixty-seven" (ll. 7–10)
Months: Ṣafar
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Säve-Söderbergh 1982, pl. 107, 3
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Source: Säve-Söderbergh 1982, fig. on p. 54
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Säve-Söderbergh 1981, pp. 54–5, fig. on p. 54, pls. 47, 107.3 (= TEI 26099)
Other editions: Holthoer – Salonen – Ziliacus 1964, pp. 12–13, fig. on p. 13

Other publications: Säve-Söderbergh 1964, p. 39, pl. 7 (left); Säve-Söderbergh 1970, p. 238; Säve-Söderbergh – Englund – Nordström 1981, p. 135; CSCN, pp. 168, 169, table 24 on p. 170

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Provenance: Komangana
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cemetery 178; reused to block entrance to tomb 8, inscribed surface turned inwards and upside down
Excavation no.: 178/8:8
Present location: Uppsala
Museum no.

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek/Coptic
Content: epitaph of Staurophoros, meizon, nauarches of Nobades, naukrates of the Seven Lands
Date: 4 December 1069
Notes: near Debeira
weekday correct

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 44; W: 24; Th: 17
Text dimensions: H: 34; W: 19
Object colour: reddish-brown
Text colour
Lines: 32
Height of letters: 0.9

Description: roughly rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by raised border in form of aedicula, line 1 written on "lintel"
Decorative elements: aedicula-type decoration: 2 columns with undecorated capitals supporting lintel upon which resting conch
State of preservation: complete, left upper corner broken off (?)

Date: 4 December 1069
Chronological systems: day of the week
Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ⲧⲏ ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲥⲕⲉⲩⲏ ⲏⲙⲉⲣⲁ · ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕ · ⲏ̄ · ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣⲧ · ⲯⲡ̄ⲋ
Transcription: "on the Preparation Day (= Friday), on day 8 of Choiak, (in the year) from the Martyrs 786" (ll. 28–30)
Months: ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕ
Weakdays: ⲧⲏ ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲥⲕⲉⲩⲏ
Feasts

Offices & titles: meizoteros (ⲙⲉⲓⲍ): l. 8
nauarches of the Nobades (ⲛⲁⲩⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲛⲟ⸌ⲃ⸍): l. 8
nau( ) of the Seven Lands (ⲛⲁⲩ ⲉⲡⲧⲁ ⲭⲱⲣⲁⲓ): l. 8

Toponyms & ethnonyms: Nobades (ⲛⲟ⸌ⲃ⸍): l. 8
Seven Lands (ⲉⲡⲧⲁ ⲭⲱⲣⲁⲓ): l. 8
(Church of) Seueros in the town (ⲥⲉⲩⲏⲣⲟⲥ ⲇⲡ︥ⲡⲉⲇⲱ): ll. 24–5

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Hägg 1982, pl. 105
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Source: Hägg 1982, fig. on p. 57
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Hägg 1981, pp. 55–59, fig. on p. 57, pl. 105
Other editions: Holthoer – Salonen – Ziliacus 1964, pp. 15–19, figs. 1, 7

Other publications: Säve-Söderbergh 1964, pp. 37–39, fig. 9b; Žabkar 1967, p. 16; Säve-Söderbergh 1970, p. 238; Säve-Söderbergh – Englund – Nordström 1981, p. 134; Säve-Söderbergh 1981, p. 50; Hägg 1990, pp. 161, 162; Łajtar 1996c, p. 106 (no. 18); Łajtar – Van der Vliet 1998, p. 50 (no. 11); CSBE(2), p. 85, n. 121, p. 316; CSCN, table 47 on p. 337; Berkes 2017, pp. 117–118, table on p. 119

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Provenance: Abdallah-n Irqi
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: central church (= church on citadel), inserted in wall in NE corner (adjoining A7)
Excavation no.: F 1964/11.32 (reg. no. 208)
Present location: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden
Museum no.

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Coptic
Content: epitaph of Theodoraki, priest
Date: probably 900–999
Notes

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 21; W: 18; Th: 9
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 9
Height of letters

Description
Decorative elements
State of preservation

Date: probably 900–999
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
indiction

Dating formulae: ϩⲛ̄ ⲥⲟⲩ ⲥⲟⲟⲩ ⲛ̄ⲑⲟⲟⲩⲧ ⲓⲛⲇ ⲓⲉ︥
Transcription: "on day six of (the month of) Thoth, in the 15th indiction" (ll. 7–9)
Months: ⲑⲟⲟⲩⲧ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: priest (?) (ⲡⲡⲣ ̣ⲥ ̣ ̣ ̣): l. 7

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Schneider 1975, pl. 24
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Source: Schneider 1975, fig. 39
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Schneider 1975, pp. 21, 25 (no. 39), fig. 39, pls. 23–4
Other editions: Schneider 1970, pp. 91–2

Other publications: Smith 1962, p. 43, pl. 5.2; Barkóczi – Salamon 1974, p. 326, with n. 16; Hajnóczi 1974, p. 345, with n. 25; Roquet 1977, p. 167

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