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Provenance: Qasr Ibrim, Gebel Maktub
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: rocks on the hill east of Qasr Ibrim
Excavation no.: M1
Present location: Gebel Maktub, in situ (?)
Museum no.

Medium: rock
Technique: incised (graffito)
Type of text: unidentified
Language: unidentified
Content: unidentified inscription with fragment of date preserved
Date: 29 August 950–29 August 951
Notes: year 667 from Diocletian was a leap year, ending on 29 August

Material: stone
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Date: 29 August 950–29 August 951
Chronological systems: Era of Diocletian

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Transcription: "(in the year) from Diocletian 667" (l. ?)
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Latest edition: unpublished; mentioned in Łajtar – van der Vliet 2013, p. 160
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TrismegistosTM text 141741

Provenance: Qasr Ibrim, Gebel Maktub
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: rocks on the hill east of Qasr Ibrim
Excavation no.: M27
Present location: Gebel Maktub, in situ (?)
Museum no.

Medium: rock
Technique: incised (graffito)
Type of text: unidentified
Language: unidentified
Content: unknown contents
Date: 29 August 900–28 August 901
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Material: stone
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Date: 29 August 900–28 August 901
Chronological systems: Era of Diocletian

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Transcription: "(in the year) from Diocletian 617" (l. ?)
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Latest edition: unpublished; mentioned in Łajtar – van der Vliet 2013, p. 160
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TrismegistosTM text 140326

Provenance: Abd el-Qadir
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: site 5-0-15
Excavation no.: 5-0-15/8
Present location: British Museum, London
Museum no.: EA79660

Medium: ostrakon
Technique: painted
Type of text: document: economic
Language: Greek
Content: fragmentary text, perhaps connected with shipping of goods
Date: 700–899
Notes

Material: ceramic
Object dimensions: H: 8.5; W: 11.6
Text dimensions
Object colour: red
Text colour: black
Lines: 5
Height of letters

Description: fragment of ostrakon, wirtten on convex side
Decorative elements
State of preservation: only endings of lines preserved; ink obliterated

Date: 700–899
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ⲫⲁⲙⲉⲛ
Transcription: "Phamenoth" (l. 1)
Months: ⲫⲁⲙⲉⲛ
Weakdays
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Source: © The Trustees of the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA79660
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Latest edition: Ruffini 2010, p. 234 (no. 7), photo at <https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA79660>
Other editions

Other publications: Adams 2005, pp. 45, 182–4

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TrismegistosTM text 141743

Provenance: Qasr Ibrim
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cathedral (church 293), nave, in dust above pavement
Excavation no.
Present location: British Museum, London
Museum no.: EA71305

Medium: manuscript: leaf
Technique: painted
Type of text: literary: apocryphal
Language: Old Nubian
Content: fragment of Liber Institutionis Michaelis Archangeli
Date: 1000–1199
Notes: Browne 1990a is in fact editio princeps prepared for the first time in 1984, but published only 6 years later

Material: parchment
Object dimensions: H: 18.8; W: 13.3
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Text colour: black; red (i, ll. 1, 15, 19, 20; ii, ll. 4, 12, 18, 19, 22)
Lines: i: 22; ii: 22
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Description: fragment of leaf; pagination preserved in upper margin; name of Archangel Michael written in red ink
Decorative elements
State of preservation: two pieces of one leaf; fragmentarily preserved; complete upper margin and portion of one side margin preserved; lower part almost entirely lacking

Date: 1000–1199
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: · ⲁⲑ︤ⲩ︦ⲣ︥ · ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲉⲓⲗⲁ ⲅⲛ̄ⲕⲉⲣⲟⲩⲧⲛ̄ ⲇⲓⲡⲁ
ⲁⲑ︤ⲩ︦ⲣ︥ ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲉⲛ̄ ⲇⲓⲙⲉⲇ ⲟⲩⲉⲓⲧⲓⲛⲛ̄ ·
Transcription: "on the evening of the eleventh of the month of Athyr" (i, ll. 8–9)
"dawn of the twelfth of the month of Athyr" (ii, l. 7)
Months: ⲁⲑ︤ⲩ︦ⲣ︥ (x2)
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Source: © The Trustees of the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA71305
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Source: © The Trustees of the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA71305
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Latest edition: Browne 2004, pp. 43–44
Other editions: P. QI 1 11, pl. XI; Browne 1988a; Browne 1989a, pp. 60–61, 91; Browne 1990a

Other publications: Browne 1992c, p. 382; Browne 1995a, pp. 453–454; Browne 1998c, p. 19; CSCN, pp. 335–336; Tsakos 2014b, pp. 52–53, 58–59; Łajtar 2020b, Appendix no. QI36 (cf. p. 187)

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Provenance: Edfu
Region: Egypt
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.
Present location: British Museum, London
Museum no.: BM Or. MS 6805

Medium: manuscript: codex
Technique: painted
Type of text: literary: hagiographic
Language: Old Nubian
Content: Miracle of St Menas
Date: probably 900–1199
Notes

Material: parchment
Object dimensions: H: 15.5; W: 10.0
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Text colour: red and black ink
Lines: 17 pages (1: 13, 2–16: 16–18; 17: 6)
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Description: codex of 18 leaves in three quires, containing also DBMNT 714, but written in different hand; pagination in centre of upper margin; covers of brownish leather
Decorative elements: first page decorated with plaitwork motive; on fol. 10a drawing of mounted St Menas and a bearded man beneath
State of preservation: complete, with very few lacunae; large part of last page cut away; folio 12 torn but mended anciently with thread

Date: probably 900–1199
Chronological systems: day of the week

Dating formulae: · ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲁ̄ⲕⲉⲛ ⲟⲩⲕⲟⲩⲣ ⲉⲓⲛⲛ̄ⲛⲟⲛ ·
Transcription: "and since it was Sunday" (p. 9, l. 16/p. 10, l. 17)
Months
Weakdays: ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲁ̄ⲕⲉⲛ
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Latest edition: el-Guzuuli – van Gerven Oei 2012
Other editions: Griffith 1913, pp. 6–15 (no. 1); Zyhlarz 1928, pp. 132–44; Browne 1983b, pp. 23–37; Browne 1994a; Browne 1989a, pp. 6–11; Browne 2004b, pp. 1–4

Other publications: de Rustafjaell 1909, pp. 141–8, pls. 49–50; Griffith 1909, pp. 547–9; Budge 1909, pp. 13–21, pls. 3–21; Kraus 1930, pp. 32–3; Müller 1975, pp. 93–5; Browne 1992c, pp. 384–5; Browne 1994b, p. 90; Zaborski 1996, pp. 155–7; Browne 1998c, p. 1; Browne 2000b, 159–60; Browne 2000c, pp. 166–7; Brakmann 2006, pp. 291–2; Santos 2009, pp. 113–16; Weber-Thum – Weschenfelder 2015, pp. 304–5, 309–10

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TrismegistosTM text 141745

Provenance: Edfu
Region: Egypt
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.
Present location: British Museum, London
Museum no.: BM Or. MS 6805

Medium: manuscript: codex
Technique: painted
Type of text: literary: homiletic
Language: Old Nubian
Content: (Pseudo-)Nicene Canons
Date: probably 900–1199
Notes

Material: parchment
Object dimensions: H: 15.5; W: 10.0
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Object colour
Text colour: black
Lines: 16 pages (1: 19; 2: 17; 3: 16; 4: 14; 5: 13; 6–8: 14; 9: 16; 10–11: 15; 12: 17; 13: 16; 14–15: 15; 16: 2)
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Description: codex of 18 leaves in three quires, containing also DBMNT 713, but written in different hand; no pagination; covers of brownish leather
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete, with very few lacunae; large part of last page cut away; folio 12 torn but mended anciently with thread

Date: probably 900–1199
Chronological systems: day of the week

Dating formulae: · ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲁⲕⲉⲛ ⲟⲩⲕⲟⲩⲣⲣⲟ
ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲁⲕⲉⲛ
Transcription: "Sunday" (p. 31, ll. 15–16)
"Sunday" (p. 33, ll. 8–9)
Months
Weakdays: ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲁⲕⲉⲛ (x2)
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Latest edition: Browne 2004b, pp. 4–8
Other editions: Griffith 1913, pp. 15–24 (no. 2); Zyhlarz 1928, pp. 144–54; Browne 1983c, pp. 97–112; Browne 1989a, pp. 10–15

Other publications: de Rustafjaell 1909, p. 149, pl. 51; Griffith 1909, pp. 549–50; Budge 1909, pp. 13–21, pls. 22–37; Kraus 1930, p. 33; Browne 1980c, pp. 129–34; Browne 1981e, pp. 65–6; Müller 1986, pp. 341–6; Browne 1989c, p. 72; Browne 1994b, pp. 85, 86; Browne 1995a, p. 456; Browne 1998c, pp. 1–4; Brakmann 2006, pp. 291–2; Ruffini 2012a, pp. 109–10; Łajtar – Ochała 2015, pp. 94–5, with n. 34 and 38

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TrismegistosTM text 141746

Provenance: Qasr Ibrim
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cathedral (church 293), nave, in dust above pavement
Excavation no.
Present location: unknown
Museum no.

Medium: manuscript: leaf
Technique: painted
Type of text: liturgical: lectionary
Language: Old Nubian
Content: fragment of lectionary with John 19:42–20:9, 13:13–17, and Philippians 4:4–9
Date: 1000–1199
Notes

Material: parchment
Object dimensions: H: 23.0; W: 12.6
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Object colour
Text colour: black; red (ii, ll. 13–14)
Lines: i: 27; ii: 33
Height of letters

Description: leaf from a codex; beginning of the second passage of the Gospel written in red ink
Decorative elements
State of preservation: almost complete; one lower corner torn off; upper margin not preserved, but fragments of first lines visible on both sides

Date: 1000–1199
Chronological systems: day of the week

Dating formulae: · ⲕⲩⲣ̣ⲁⲕⲉⲅⲟⲩⲗⲱ ·
Transcription: "Sunday" (i, l. 1)
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Source: P. QI 1, pl. V
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Latest edition: Browne 2004b, pp. 36–37
Other editions: P. QI 1 5, pl. V; Browne 1989a, pp. 50–51, 90

Other publications: Browne 1989c, p. 70; Browne 1992b, pp. 32–33; Browne 1992c, p. 381; Browne 1995a, p. 457; Browne 1998c, pp. 14–16; Browne 2000a, p. 33; Browne 1994b, pp. 18–19, 28–32, 43–45; Brakmann 2006, p. 295; Ochała 2013, pp. 195–196 n. 195; Łajtar 2014a, pp. 392–393; Ruffini 2014b, p. 225; Ochała 2015, p. 13 n. 51; Łajtar 2015–2016, p. 135 (no. 94); Łajtar 2020b, Appendix no. QI56 (cf. p. 187)

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TrismegistosTM text 102631

Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cathedral, east part of north aisle, north wall, close to northeast corner; to the right of painting no. 19 (Mary protecting Queen Mother Martha)
Excavation no.: D 81a.3 (neg. nos. Fa.62/3.1273, Fa.63/4.1367, Fa.63/4.1374, Fa.63/4.1382, Fa.63/4.1392)
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.: SNM 24318

Medium: wall
Technique: painted (dipinto)
Type of text: dedicatory inscription
Language: Greek/Coptic/Old Nubian
Content: prayer for Mariakouda, priest of church of Mary in Pachoras, son of Petosa
Date: 1000–1025
Notes: ll. 1–8 in Greek, l. 9 in Coptic – dated to the early 11th century
ll. 11–16 in Old Nubian in a different hand, added at a later date, 12th–13th century

Material: plaster
Object dimensions
Text dimensions: not recorded
Object colour
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Lines: 16
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Description: dipinto probably written with one hand, although lower, Old Nubian part with bigger letters and less careful
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete, endings of lines obliterated

Date: 1000–1025
Chronological systems: liturgical calendar
Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ⲧⲏⲃⲓ · ⲉⲟⲣ⸌ⲑ⸍ · ⲕⲁ
Transcription: "the feast of Tybi, (day) 21" (l. 10)
Months: ⲧⲏⲃⲓ
Weakdays
Feasts: ⲧⲏⲃⲓ · ⲉⲟⲣ⸌ⲑ⸍

Offices & titles: priest of (church of) Mary in Pachoras (= Faras) (⳦ ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ ⲡⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲱⲣⲁⲥ): l. 8

Toponyms & ethnonyms: (church of) Mary in Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ ⲡⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲱⲣⲁⲥ): l. 8
Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ ⲡⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲱⲣⲁⲥ): l. 8

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Source: neg. no. Fa.62/3.1273 (= Kubińska 1974, fig. 44)
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Latest edition: Jakobielski et alii 2017, p. 249 (no. 71)
Other editions: Altheim – Stiehl 1971, pp. 497–9; I. Faras Greek 22 & 49, p. 111, fig. 44 (Greek part)

Other publications: Michałowski 1967, pls. 64–5; I. Faras Copt., pp. 178–80, fig. 61; Quecke 1975, p. 457; Jakobielski 1975a, p. 330; CSCN, p. 322; CIEN 6, no. 59

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TrismegistosTM text 141747

Provenance: Gebel Adda
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: citadel, square 337, room G
Excavation no.: 66:1:63
Present location: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Museum no.: ROM acc. no. 973.24.2914

Medium: manuscript
Technique: painted
Type of text: document: list
Language: Old Nubian
Content: fragment of list of deliveries of crops and wine
Date: 1100–1499
Notes

Material: paper
Object dimensions: H: 4.3; W: 13
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour: black
Lines: 7
Height of letters: 0.3–0.6

Description: rectangular sheet of paper
Decorative elements
State of preservation: original width and probably also height preserved; upper left corner missing; brown stains on surface

Date: 1100–1499
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ⸌ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕⲓⲗⲁ⸍

(transcription by Łajtar)
Transcription: "in (the month of) Choiak" (l. 2)
Months: ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕⲓ-ⲗⲁ
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Source: ROM archives
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Latest edition: unpublished; mentioned in Ochała 2014a, pp. 972–5; Łajtar 2014e, pp. 199–200
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TrismegistosTM text 141748

Provenance: Gebel Adda
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.: 32 or 33
Present location: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Museum no.: ROM acc. no. 973.24.2932

Medium: manuscript: leaf
Technique: painted
Type of text: liturgical
Language: Greek
Content: fragment of index of saints
Date: probably 900–1099
Notes

Material: parchment
Object dimensions: H: 4; W: 6.3
Text dimensions
Object colour: brown
Text colour: black and red
Lines: 1: 5; 2: 4
Height of letters: 0.25–0.7

Description: small piece of codex card; numerals designating days of month written in red
Decorative elements
State of preservation: fragmentary; fragments of lower and one side margin preserved

Date: probably 900–1099
Chronological systems: liturgical calendar

Dating formulae: Hair side
[---]ⲱⲛ[---]ⲁⲣ : ⲇ : [---]ⲟⲩⲙϥ̄ ⲉ[---]ⲩ ⲋ : ⲁⲑⲩⲛⲱ[---]ⲱ̣ⲥⲓⲟⲩ · ⲉⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍

Flesh side
̣ ̣ ̣ⲩ ̣[---]ⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲩ[---] ⲉⲩⲫⲏⲙ[---] ⲫⲱⲛⲟⲥ ⳤ ̣ ̣[---]

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Transcription
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Source: Łajtar 2014c, pl. 11
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Latest edition: Łajtar – Rizos 2020, pp. 86–92, figs. 1–2
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Other publications: CSCN, p. 323; Łajtar 2014c, p. 955, pl. 11

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Provenance: Sonqi Tino
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: church, entrance between rooms 5(naos) and 8; south pilaster; above DBMNT 2901
Excavation no.: DON60
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.

Medium: wall
Technique: painted (dipinto)
Type of text: catalogue
Language: Old Nubian
Content: probably list of offerings brought to the church
Date: 1000–1399
Notes

Material: plaster
Object dimensions
Text dimensions: not recorded
Object colour
Text colour: black
Lines: 20
Height of letters

Description: large dipinto in black ink, written with a few hands
Decorative elements
State of preservation: text obliterated in places, especially ll. 3–6, 14–17; large crack running diagonally from upper left corner; endings of ll. 1–3 broken off

Date: 1000–1399
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
lunar calendar

Dating formulae: ⲫⲁⲫ ̣ ̣ⲟⲧⲓⲗⲁ ⲕⲁ ̣ ̣[---] ⲟⲩⲛⲛⲁ ⲡⲣⲟ̄ⲧⲓ

(transcription by Ochała)
Transcription: "on the [ ] (of the month of) Phaophi [...], on the first (day) of the moon" (ll. 1–2)
Months: ⲫⲁⲫ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: bishop (ⲡⲁⲡⲓⲥ): l. 2
priest (ⲥⲟⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍): l. 2; (ⲥ︤ⲟ︦ⲣ︥): l. 10

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: photo by G. Ochała
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: unpublished; in preparation by the Sonqi Tino Collaborative; mentioned in Ochała 2014a, pp. 971–6
Other editions

Other publications: Leclant 1968, p. 121; Donadoni 1970, p. 215; Ruffini 2012a, pp. 108–10; Laisney 2012, p. 605; Łajtar – Ochała 2015, p. 87 with n. 12, 101

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TrismegistosTM text 141751

Provenance: Gebel Adda
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cemetery 2, burial 5 associated with church
Excavation no.: 64:12:1
Present location: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Museum no.: ROM acc. no. 973.24.995

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Coptic
Content: epitaph of man Tete
Date: probably 700–899
Notes: 'one is God' type

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 29.5; W: 17; Th: 7.5
Text dimensions
Object colour: yellow
Text colour
Lines: 8
Height of letters: 0.9–2.5

Description: round-topped stela; back not smoothed; epigraphic field surrounded by incised line; irregularly ruled
Decorative elements
State of preservation: originally found in two pieces, now glued together; complete

Date: probably 700–899
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ϩⲛ ⲥⲟⲩ ϥⲧⲟⲟ̣ⲩ ⲙⲙⲉⲥⲟⲩⲣⲉ

(transcription by Łajtar)
Transcription: "on day four of (the month of) Mesore" (ll. 6–8)
Months: ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲩⲣⲉ
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Source: ROM archives
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Latest edition: unpublished; mentioned in Łajtar 2014c, p. 952
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