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Provenance: Ghazali
Region: Makuria
Findspot: (a), (c), (d), (e), (f): Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations:
(a), (c), (d), (e): findspot not recorded
(f): northern church

(b): Lepsius's expedition, findspot not recorded

(g): Polish-Sudanese excavations, fill above southern church
Excavation no.: (a), (c), and (d): I 67 (a–c)
(b) and (f): not registered
(g): G.13.003
Present location: (a), (c), (d), (e), (f): Sudan National Museum, Khartoum (b): Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Berlin (previously Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin) (g): Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
Museum no.: (a), (c), (d): SNM 11623 (b): 10001 (old no. ÄM 12835) (e): SNM 11599 (f): SNM 11608 (g): not registered

Medium: stela
Technique: incised before firing & painted
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Coptic
Content: fragmentary epitaph of unidentified man
Date: 700–999
Notes: pronoia type

Material: terracotta
Object dimensions: (a): H: 10; W: 8; Th: 2
(b): H: 23; W: 13; Th: 2.2 (3.5 with the border)
(c): H: 16; W: 14; Th: 2
(d): H: 12; W: 11; Th: 2
(e): H: 9; W: 11; Th: 2
(f): H: 9.5; W: 8.5; Th: 2
(g): H: 10; W: 13.5; Th: 2(3.2 with the border)
Reconstructed dimensions: H: c. 62; W: 45
Text dimensions
Object colour: core black, front dark red (slipped), back red and grey; decoration black and white (painted)
Text colour: yellow and purple
Lines: 14 (16 reconstructed)
Height of letters: 1.6–2.5

Description: Seven fragments, two joining (a+b), of undoubtedly the same round-topped plaque. Fragments (a+b): upper left margin; (c) and (d): central right margin; (e)+(f): left lower part, no margins; (f): lower right corner. The epigraphic field framed by a raised border ca. 2 cm wide, leaving a broad uninscribed outer margin (3.5 cm at the bottom, 2–3 cm at the top and on the right, 3.5–4 in top left part). The text ruled with incised lines, forming registers of 2.5–3 cm.

Porous Nile clay with organic and mineral admixture (mica, quartzite).
Decorative elements: The raised border decorated with a zigzag line with dots in the bottom margin and an X-pattern with dots in the side margins. The zigzag decoration painted purple, the X-pattern painted purple and yellow alternatively (no traces of paint in fragment [e]). The letters and ruling lines painted alternatively yellow in odd lines and purple in even lines.
State of preservation: fragmentary; seven fragments from different parts of stela

Date: 700–999
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: [ⲛ]ⲥ̣ⲟⲩ [4–5 ⲙⲡⲉⲃⲟⲧ ⲙⲉ]ⲭⲉⲓⲣ
Transcription: "on [numeral] of the month of Mecheir" (ll. 8–9)
Months: ⲙⲉ]ⲭⲉⲓⲣ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: I. Ghazali 29
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Latest edition: I. Ghazali 29
Other editions: Shinnie – Chittick 1961, p. 90, no. 67 (fragments [a], [c], [d]); p. 72, no. 9 (fragment [e]); p. 75, no. 18 (fragment [f]); I. Khartoum Copt. 90, pls. 55–60 (fragments [a], [c], [d]); 79, pl. 49, lower (fragment [e]); 82, pl. 51, lower (fragment [f])

Other publications: Erman 1899, p. 413 (fragment [b] mentioned); Junker 1925a, p. 123 (physical description of fragment [b])

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Provenance: el-Koro
Region: Makuria
Findspot: not recorded
Excavation no.
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.: SNM 3416

Medium: stela
Technique: incised before firing
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Coptic
Content: fragment of epitaph
Date: 800–999
Notes: to the south of of Abu Hamed
dating formula in Greek

Material: terracotta
Object dimensions: H: 27; W: 21; Th: 2.5
Text dimensions
Object colour: grey-brown
Text colour
Lines: 6
Height of letters: 2-4

Description: fragment of plaque; epigraphic field framed by double incised lines
Decorative elements
State of preservation: lower left corner preserved

Date: 800–999
Chronological systems: Era of Diocletian
Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ⲉⲛ ⲙⲏⲛ[ⲓ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ⲁ]ⲡⲟ ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗ[ⲏⲧⲓⲁⲛⲟⲩ ̣ ̣ ̣]
Transcription: "in month of [...], (in the year) from Diocletian [...]" (ll. 2–3)
Months
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: photo by W. Godlewski
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Source: Macadam 1953, fig. 12, 1
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Latest edition: I. Khartoum Copt. 119, pl. 71
Other editions: Macadam 1953, p. 44 (no. 1), fig. 12.1, pl. 22

Other publications: Jackson 1926, p. 28; Hinkel – Abdelrahman Ali Mohamed 2002, p. 209; Tsakos 2010a, p. 687 (no. 22)

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Provenance: el-Koro
Region: Makuria
Findspot: not recorded
Excavation no.
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.: SNM 9506, 9506 AA

Medium: stela
Technique: incised before firing
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Coptic
Content: epitaph of Papnoute
Date: 700–999
Notes: S of Abu Hamed

Material: terracotta
Object dimensions: A: H: 23.5; W: 15; Th: 2-3
B: H: 7.5; W: 6.5; Th: 2-2.5
Text dimensions
Object colour: reddish
Text colour
Lines: 10
Height of letters: 1.5-2

Description: two fragments of plaque; epigraphic field framed by incised line
Decorative elements
State of preservation: two fragments not connecting with each other: bigger one from left lower part, smaller - right lower corner

Date: 700–999
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ⲙ̄ⲡⲉⲃ[ⲟⲧ ⲭⲟⲓⲁ]ⲕ ⲅ̄
Transcription: "in the month of Choiak, (day) 3" (ll. 3–4)
Months: ⲭⲟⲓⲁ]ⲕ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: priest (ⲡ[ⲣⲉⲥⲃⲩⲧⲉ]ⲣⲟⲥ): ll. 2–3

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: photo by W. Godlewski
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Source: Macadam 1953, fig. 12, 5, 7
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Latest edition: I. Khartoum Copt. 120, pl. 72
Other editions: Macadam 1953, pp. 45–7 (nos. 5, 7), fig. 12.5, 7, pl. 28b; Barns 1954, p. 28

Other publications: Tsakos 2010a, p. 687 (no. 22)

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Provenance: el-Koro
Region: Makuria
Findspot: not recorded
Excavation no.
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.: SNM 9508

Medium: stela
Technique: incised before firing
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Coptic
Content: fragment of epitaph of Iohannes, monk (?)
Date: 700–899
Notes: S of Abu Hamed

Material: terracotta
Object dimensions: H: 16; W: 19; Th: 3.5
Text dimensions
Object colour: reddish
Text colour: remains of yellow and white
Lines: 7
Height of letters: 2

Description: fragment of plaque; epigraphic field framed by incised line
Decorative elements
State of preservation: part of right side preserved

Date: 700–899
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: [ⲛⲥ]ⲟⲩ ⲙⲛ̄ⲧⲏ ⲙⲡⲉ[ⲃⲟⲧ] ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲣⲏ
Transcription: "on day fifteen of the month of Mesore" (ll. 4–5)
Months: ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲣⲏ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: brother (= monk) (?) ([ⲡⲥⲟⲛ]): l. 2

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: photo by W. Godlewski
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Source: Macadam 1953, fig. 12, 6
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Khartoum Copt. 121, pl. 72
Other editions: Macadam 1953, pp. 46–7 (no. 6), fig. 12.6, pl. 28b

Other publications: Tsakos 2010a, p. 687 (no. 22)

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Provenance: Ghazali (?)
Region: Makuria
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.: SNM 11567

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Coptic
Content: fragment of epitaph of man
Date: circa 800–899
Notes

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 21; W: 28; Th: 9.5
Text dimensions
Object colour: grey
Text colour
Lines: 9 (11 reconstructed)
Height of letters: c. 2

Description: Central part of a slab with parts of both side margins preserved. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, leaving the margins of ca. 1.5 cm. The surface is heavily worn, especially in the left part, seriously affecting the reading.
Decorative elements
State of preservation: fragment from middle of stela, with part of right and left margins preserved; surface much damaged

Date: circa 800–899
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ⲙ̄ⲡⲉⲃⲟⲧ ⲑ[ ̣]ⲱ̣ⲑ ⲓ̈ⲁ̣
Transcription: "in the month of Thoth, (day) 11" (ll. 5–6)
Months: ⲑ[ ̣]ⲱ̣ⲑ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: I. Ghazali 22
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Latest edition: I. Ghazali 22
Other editions: I. Khartoum Copt. 125, pl. 74, lower

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Provenance: unknown
Region: unknown
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.
Present location: National Museum, Warsaw
Museum no.: 198836

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of Kollouthos
Date: 550–999
Notes

Material: marble
Object dimensions: H: 48; W: 41; Th: 4.5
Text dimensions
Object colour: blueish
Text colour
Lines: 15
Height of letters: 0.9-2.4

Description: roughly rectangular plaque; letters engraved by the means pointing with the chisel; no ruling; towards bottom left sides of lines tending to slide down in respect to right sides; above line 1 vague line of points marking beginning of text
Decorative elements
State of preservation: lower left corner lacking

Date: 550–999
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
indiction

Dating formulae: ⲙⲏ[ⲛⲓ ⲑⲱⲑ] ⲅ ⲓ̈ⲛⲇ⸌ⲟ⸍ ⲓⲉ
Transcription: "(in the) month of [Thoth], (day) 3, in the 15th indiction" (ll. 13-14)
Months: [ⲑⲱⲑ]
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: National Museum, Warsaw: https://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/480974
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Warsaw 100, pl. 100
Other editions: Kubińska 1981, pp. 74–76; SEG 31 1562; Łajtar 1992c, pp. 137–140

Other publications: Michałowski 1955, p. 180; SEG 42 1659 descr.; Łajtar 1999, p. 161 (no. 113); Twardecki 2000, p. 7, fig. 4; Twardecki 2001, p. 140 (no. 15); Catalogue Warsaw 2014, pp. 100–101 (with fig.)

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Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: north building, west wall, near north-west corner
Excavation no.: FA 110/63-64 (neg. nos. Fa.62/3.0647–0649)
Present location: National Museum, Warsaw
Museum no.: 234292

Medium: wall
Technique: incised (inscription)
Type of text: foundation inscription
Language: Greek
Content: foundation inscription of Bishop Paulos
Date: 1 May 707–29 August 707
Notes: I. Khartoum Copt. prints wrong museum number (234848)
year 423 from Diocletian was a leap year, lasting one day longer; 6th Constantinopolitan indiction began on 1 August 707 and Egyptian on 1 May 707

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 77; W: 51; Th: 27
Text dimensions
Object colour: grey
Text colour
Lines: 26
Height of letters: 1.5-2.5

Description: rectangular block; roughly rectangular epigraphic field framed by raised borders on top, left and right sides
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete

Date: 1 May 707–29 August 707
Chronological systems: regnal years
indiction (Egyptian)
Era of Diocletian

Dating formulae: ⲉⲡⲓ ⲓ̈ⲁ ⲧⲏⲥ ⲃⲁⲥⲓⲗⲉⲓⲁⲥ ⲧⲟⲩ ⲑⲉⲟⲥⲧⲉⲡⲧⲟⲩ ⳤ ⲫⲓⲗⲟⲭ̄︤ⲩ︥̄ ⲃⲁⲥⲓⲗⲉⲱⲥ ⲙⲉⲣⲕⲟⲩⲣⲓⲟⲩ
ⲉⲡⲓⲛⲉⲙ⸌ⲏ⸍ ⲓⲛ︦ⲇ︥ ⲋ
ⲉⲧⲟⲩⲥ ⲧⲱⲛ ⲭⲣⲟⲛⲱⲛ ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲩ̄︤ⲕ︦ⲅ̄︥
Transcription: "in the 11th (year) of the reign of (...) king Merkourios" (ll. 3–5)
"in the 6th indiction" (l. 7)
"in the year of era of Diocletian 423" (l. 26)
Months
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: king (ⲃⲁⲥⲓⲗⲉⲱⲥ): l. 5
eparch (ⲉⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍): l. 6
abba (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): ll. 10, 16

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: https://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/618257
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Warsaw 101, pl. 101
Other editions: Jakobielski 1966b, pp. 99–106, fig. 2; I. Faras Greek 1, fig. 1

Other publications: Michałowski 1964a, pp. 197–199, pl. 39b; Michałowski 1967, pp. 65–67; Jakobielski 1969, p. 500, fig. 2; Vantini 1970, pp. 186–188; I. Faras Copt., pp. 35–51; Rostkowska 1982, pp. 208–209 (partial transcription and translation); Munro-Hay 1982/3, pp. 97–99; Łajtar 1999, p. 162 (no. 117); Van der Vliet 1999b, pp. 84–97; Catalogue Vienna 2002, pp. 99–100 (no. 31), fig. on p. 101; Felle 2003, p. 86; Brakmann 2006, pp. 311–314; CSCN, table 11 on p. 71, pp. 74, 110, 115, 116, 121, 210, 212; Werner 2013, p. 82; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, pp. 64–65 (with fig.); Hendrickx 2019, pp. 7–8 (text and translation), 10–13 (discussion)

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Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: outside cathedral, south wall, near south-east corner
Excavation no.: FA 56/61-62 (neg. no. Fa.62.0494)
Present location: National Museum, Warsaw
Museum no.: 234680

Medium: architectural element
Technique: incised (inscription)
Type of text: foundation inscription
Language: Greek
Content: fragment of foundation inscription of Bishop Paulos
Date: probably 707
Notes

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 31; W: 78; Th: 14.5
Text dimensions
Object colour: red
Text colour
Lines: 3
Height of letters

Description: fragment of lintel; line 1 of text inscribed on cornice, rest below it
Decorative elements: in central raised part, Maltese cross in relief
State of preservation: partly preserved, right side lacking

Date: probably 707
Chronological systems: indiction

Dating formulae: ⲓⲛⲇ⳽ [---]
Transcription: "(in the) [...] indiction" (l. 2)
Months
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: abba (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): l. 2
bishop (ⲉⲡⲓⲥⳤ): l. 2 + monogram

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: https://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/618638
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Warsaw 102, pl. 102
Other editions: Jakobielski 1965, p. 164 (no. 2), fig. 86; I. Faras Greek 2, fig. 2; Rostkowska 1982, p. 209

Other publications: Bull. épigr. 1966, 498, p. 17, n. 57; I. Faras Copt., pp. 48–9; Łajtar 1999, p. 162 (no. 118); van der Vliet 1999b, pp. 86–7; Catalogue Vienna 2002, p. 121 (no. 53), fig. on p. 120; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, pp. 68–9 (with fig.)

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Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: funerary complex of bishops south of cathedral, found in fill c. 1 m from the northern tomb and attributed to it
Excavation no.: FA 110/62-63 (neg. no. Fa.62/3.0167)
Present location: National Museum, Warsaw
Museum no.: 234644

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of Maththaios, bishop
Date: 26 May 766–24 June 766
Notes

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 38.5; W: 32; Th: 9
Text dimensions
Object colour: grey
Text colour: traces of red paint
Lines: 15
Height of letters: 0.7-2.2

Description: almost rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by raised borders on each side; last line written on bottom border
Decorative elements
State of preservation: almost complete, apart from last line which was broken off; surface very much worn, in some places completely illegible

Date: 26 May 766–24 June 766
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
Era of Diocletian

Dating formulae: ⲉ ⲙⲏⲛⲏ ⲡⲁⲩⲛⲓ [ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣] ⲋ ⲉⲧ[ⲟⲩ]ⲥ [ⲁ]ⲡⲟ ⲇⲓ[ⲟⲕⲗ]ⲏ ⲩⲡⲃ̣
Transcription: "in the month of Payni [...], in the year from Diocletian 482" (ll. 5–7)
Months: ⲡⲁⲩⲛⲓ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: abba (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): l. 4
bishop (ⲉⲡ[ⲓⲥ]ⲕⲟⲡⲟⲩ): l. 5

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: National Museum, Warsaw: https://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/496970
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Warsaw 105, pl. 105
Other editions: I. Faras Copt., pp. 62–3, 202, fig. 72; I. Faras Greek 3, fig. 4

Other publications: Quecke 1975, p. 458; Jakobielski 1975a, p. 325; Hagedorn 1976, p. 184; Łajtar 1999, p. 162 (no. 121); Richter 2002, p. 178; CSBE(2), p. 75; Brakmann 2006, p. 301; Hägg 2010a, pp. 619–20; Richter 2013, p. 148; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, pp. 102–3 (with fig.)

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Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: funerary complex of bishops south of cathedral, in situ in central tomb
Excavation no.: F 382/62-63 (neg. no. Fa.62/3.0822)
Present location: National Museum, Warsaw
Museum no.: 234647

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of Ignatios, bishop
Date: 23 January 802
Notes: World Creation and Incarnation Eras in a version counted from 29 August; weekday correct

Material: marble
Object dimensions: H: 47; W: 40
Text dimensions
Object colour: white
Text colour
Lines: 16
Height of letters

Description: rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by incised line; text divided by ruling; last part of text running around main part; type of script without analogies in Nubia
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete

Date: 23 January 802
Chronological systems: Era of the World Creation
Era of the Incarnation
Egyptian calendar
day of the week
indiction
Era of Diocletian

Dating formulae: ⲉⲛ ⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲧⲩⲃⲓ ⲕ︤ⲏ︥ ⲏⲙⲉ ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲁⲕ̄ⲏ ⲉⲧ(ⲟ)ⲩⲥ ⲕⲟⲥⲙⲟⲡⲟⲓⲁⲥ ⲋ̄︤ⲥ︦ϥ︦ⲇ︥ ⲉⲧ(ⲟ)ⲩⲥ ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲫⲓ︦ⲏ︥̄ ⲓⲛ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲓ︦
ⲉⲡⲓ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲭ̄︤ⲩ︦ ⲯϥⲇ ---
Transcription: "in the month of Tybi, (day) 28, Sunday, (in the) year from the creation of the world 6294, (in the) year from Diocletian 518, in the 10th indiction" (ll. 5–6)
"in (the year from) the sojourn of Christ (on earth) 794" (l. 16)
Months: ⲧⲩⲃⲓ
Weakdays: ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲁⲕⲏ
Feasts

Offices & titles: bishop (ⲉⲡⲓⲥⳤ): l. 4

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: https://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/618613
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Latest edition: I. Warsaw 106, pl. 106
Other editions: I. Faras Copt., pp. 70–72, 202–205, fig. 73; I. Faras Greek 4, fig. 5

Other publications: Michałowski 1964a, p. 196; Michałowski 1967, p. 74; Jakobielski 1969, pp. 501–2, fig. 4; Quecke 1975, p. 458; Jakobielski 1975a, p. 325; Hagedorn 1976, p. 184; Catalogue Hamm 1996, p. 130 (no. 88); Donadoni 1984, p. 16; Łajtar 1999, p. 162 (no. 122); Łajtar 2001a, p. 332; Catalogue Vienna 2002, pp. 100–101 (no. 32), fig. on p. 102; CSBE(2), p. 76, n. 50, p. 316; CSCN, pp. 122, 192, 193, 199, table 47 on p. 337; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, pp. 98–9 (with fig.); Łajtar 2020c, pp. 262–263, 270–271

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Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cathedral, western group of bishops’ tombs, immured in the western façade of the cathedral, above the tomb
Excavation no.: F 390/62-63 (neg. nos. Fa.61/2.0660, Fa.61/2.0759, Fa.62/3.0823)
Present location: National Museum, Warsaw
Museum no.: 234646

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of Stephanos, bishop
Date: 14 July 926
Notes: the 532-year cycle ended on 24 March 893 but the redactor did not stop counting years; the epacts agree with the rest of the date (15th year of the Metonic 19-year lunar cycle, in which there are 4 epact days); lunar day incorrect – 1 earlier than Alexandrian cycle; weekday correct

Material: marble
Object dimensions: H: 41; W: 42; Th: 2.9
Text dimensions
Object colour: white
Text colour: part of letters painted red
Lines: 18
Height of letters: c. 2

Description: trapezoid plaque
Decorative elements: part of letters painted red forming cross in the middle of epigraphic field
State of preservation: complete

Date: 14 July 926
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
day of the week
Era of the World Creation
Era of the Incarnation
lunar calendar
indiction (Constantinopolitan)
Alexandrian cycle of 532 years
Era of Diocletian

Dating formulae: ⲉⲛ ⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲓ ⲕ̄ • ⲏ̇ⲙⲉⲣⲁ ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲥⲕⲉⲩⲏ ⲁⲡ⸌ⲟ⸍ ⲕⲟⲥⲙⲟⲡ⸌ⲟ⸍ ⲉⲧ⸌ⲏ⸍ ⲋ̄︤ⲩ︦ⲓ︦ⲏ︥̄ • ⲡⲉⲣⲓⲟ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲫⲝ︦ⲋ̄︥ • ⲓⲛ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲓ︤ⲇ︥ • ⲁⲡ⸌ⲟ⸍ ⲭ̄︤ⲩ︦ ↑̄︤ⲓ︦ⲏ︥̄ • ⲁⲡ⸌ⲟ⸍ ⲇⲓⲟ⸌ⳤ⸍ ⲭ̄︤ⲙ︦ⲃ •
ⲉⲛ ⲉⲡⲁⲕ⸌ⲧ⸍ • ⲇ̄ : ⲥⲉⲗⲏ⸌ⲛ⸍ • ⲁ̄ :
Transcription: "in moth of Epeiph, (day) 20, Preparation Day (= Friday), from the creation of the world year 6418, period, (year) 566, in the 14th indiction, (year) from (the birth) of Christ 918, (year) from Diocletian 642" (ll. 5–8)
"in 4 epacts, on the 1st moon (day)" (l. 18)
Months: ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲓ
Weakdays: ⲏⲙⲉⲣⲁ ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲥⲕⲉⲩⲏ
Feasts

Offices & titles: abba (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): l. 4
bishop (ⲉⲡⲓⲥⲕⲟⲡⲟⲩ): l. 5

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: https://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/618612
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Latest edition: I. Warsaw 107, pl. 107
Other editions: Jakobielski 1965, p. 168, no. 4, figs. 45, 88; I. Faras Greek 6, fig. 7

Other publications: Michałowski 1962c, p. 120; Michałowski 1963b, pp. 244, 248, pl. 58b; Michałowski 1964b, p. 86, fig. 40; Michałowski 1965a, pp. 72–6 (context), fig. 45; Jakobielski 1969, pp. 501–2; I. Faras Copt., pp. 104–6; Quecke 1975, pp. 458–9; Hagedorn 1976, p. 184; Bagnall – Worp 1986, no. 1, passim, esp. p. 350; Łajtar 1999, p. 162, no. 123; Catalogue Vienna 2002, p. 105, no. 34, fig. on p. 104; CSBE(2), p. 79, n. 75, pp. 313–14, no. 2, p. 316; Ochała 2011b, p. 222, no. 9; CSCN, pp. 115, 122, 193, 196–7, 199, 311, table 47 on p. 337; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, pp. 104–5 (with fig.)

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Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: west of funerary chapel of bishop Ioannes
Excavation no.: F 132/61 (neg. no. Fa.61.439)
Present location: National Museum, Warsaw
Museum no.: 149482

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: fragment of epitaph, probably of bishop Chael
Date: probably 30 August 1123–28 August 1124
Notes: year 839 from the Martyrs was a leap year, hence year 840 it began on 30 August; date is uncertain, because numeral is not clearly legible

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 6; W: 5.5; Th: 4.5
Text dimensions
Object colour: grey
Text colour
Lines: 5
Height of letters: 0.6-1.5

Description: little fragment of stela; epigraphic field framed by triple incised lines
Decorative elements
State of preservation: only fragment of left margin preserved

Date: probably 30 August 1123–28 August 1124
Chronological systems: Era of the Martyrs

Dating formulae: ⲁⲡⲟ⸌ⲙ⸍ ⲱⲙ̣ […]
Transcription: "(in the year) from the Martyrs 840" (l. 3)
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Weakdays
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Source: I. Warsaw, pl. 108
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Latest edition: I. Warsaw 108, pl. 108
Other editions: I. Faras Copt., pp. 162–4, fig. 49

Other publications: Michałowski 1962a, p. 163 (no. 13), fig. 100 (left); CSBE(2), p. 84 (incorrect date)

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