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Text 793

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TrismegistosTM text 369513
Provenance
Qasr Ibrim
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
Late Christian house 184 (LC1-4), fill
Excavation no.
66.3.6/4
Present location
Egyptology Department, University of Liverpool
Museum no.
 
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
unidentified
Content
fragment of epitaph (?)
Date
900–1199
Notes
language either Greek or Coptic; character of the inscription not clear
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 5; W: 5
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
2
Height of letters
 
Description
fragment of slab or stela
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
fragmentarily preserved; broken on all sides
Date
900–1199
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Source
I. QI, fig. on p. 254
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Source
 
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Latest edition
I. QI 83, fig. on p. 254
Other editions
 
Other publications
 

Text 794

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TrismegistosTM text 369514
Provenance
Qasr Ibrim
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
Late Christian house 197 (LC1-20), room 7, low rubble fill
Excavation no.
78.3.19/19
Present location
unknown
Museum no.
 
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
unidentified
Content
fragment of epitaph (?)
Date
600–1199
Notes
character of the inscription not clear; perhaps Greek
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 6; W: 6; Th: 8
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
3
Height of letters
 
Description
fragment of stela or slab; ruling
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
fragmentarily preserved; broken on all sides
Date
600–1199
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
 
Image
Image not available
Source
 
Image
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Latest edition
I. QI 84
Other editions
 
Other publications
 

Text 795

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TrismegistosTM text 369515
Provenance
Qasr Ibrim
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
below Ottoman house B1, disturbed fill
Excavation no.
74.2.6/20
Present location
unknown
Museum no.
 
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
unidentified
Content
fragment of epitaph (?)
Date
600–1199
Notes
language and character of the inscription uncertain
Material
marble
Object dimensions
H: 8; W: 6; Th: 3
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
1
Height of letters
 
Description
fragment of stela or slab; ruling
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
fragment of left hand side; beginning of 1 line with portion of left margin preserved
Date
600–1199
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
 
Image
Image not available
Source
 
Image
Image not available
Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Latest edition
I. QI 85
Other editions
 
Other publications
 

Text 796

Stable url
TrismegistosTM text 369516
Provenance
Qasr Ibrim
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
Ottoman house B3, room 147, reused in wall
Excavation no.
74.1.30/3
Present location
unknown
Museum no.
 
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
unidentified
Content
fragment of epitaph (?)
Date
600–1199
Notes
language and character of the inscription uncertain
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 6.5; W: 11; Th: 6
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
2
Height of letters
 
Description
fragment of stela or slab; epigraphic field framed by raised border
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
fragmentary; portion of left margin preserved
Date
600–1199
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
 
Image
Image not available
Source
 
Image
Image not available
Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Latest edition
I. QI 86
Other editions
 
Other publications
 

Text 797

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TrismegistosTM text 369517
Provenance
Qasr Ibrim
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
dump on NW bastion
Excavation no.
80.1.23/24
Present location
British Museum, London
Museum no.
 
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Coptic
Content
fragment of epitaph (?)
Date
600–1199
Notes
character of the inscription unclear
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 6; W: 5; Th: 2
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
reddish
Text colour
 
Lines
2
Height of letters
 
Description
fragment of stela (?)
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
broken on all sides
Date
600–1199
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Source
I. QI, fig. on p. 257
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Source
 
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Latest edition
I. QI 87, fig. on p. 257
Other editions
 
Other publications
 

Text 798

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TrismegistosTM text 369518
Provenance
Qasr Ibrim
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
Late Christian house 202 (LC1-25), room 4, built into a stair
Excavation no.
78.3.18/1
Present location
Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Museum no.
 
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Coptic
Content
fragment of epitaph (?)
Date
probably 700–899
Notes
character of the inscription unclear
Material
marble
Object dimensions
H: 8.5; W: 5.7
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
2
Height of letters
 
Description
fragment of stela; ruling
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
fragmentary; broken on all sides
Date
probably 700–899
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Source
I. QI, fig. on p. 258
Image
Image not available
Source
 
Image
Image not available
Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Latest edition
I. QI 88, fig. on p. 258
Other editions
 
Other publications
 

Text 799

Stable url
TrismegistosTM text 369519
Provenance
Qasr Ibrim
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
W of VR 2
Excavation no.
unknown
Present location
unknown
Museum no.
 
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
unidentified
Content
fragment of epitaph (?)
Date
600–1199
Notes
language and character of the inscription unclear
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 7.9; W: 6.7
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
2
Height of letters
 
Description
fragment of stela (?)
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
fragmentary; broken on all sides
Date
600–1199
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Source
I. QI, fig. on p. 259
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Source
 
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Latest edition
I. QI 89, fig. on p. 259
Other editions
 
Other publications
 

Text 800

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TrismegistosTM text 369520
Provenance
Qasr Ibrim
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
house 763, room 8, W end, between floor 1 and 2
Excavation no.
82.2.2/26
Present location
Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Museum no.
JdE 97354
Medium
sepulchral cross
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Coptic
Content
fragment of sepulchral cross
Date
600–1199
Notes
 
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 10; W: 11.2; Th: 5.5
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
1
Height of letters
 
Description
fragment of sepulchral cross; epigraphic field framed by incised line
Decorative elements
loop of incised line at the right end
State of preservation
end of right arm
Date
600–1199
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Source
I. QI, fig. on p. 260
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Source
 
Image
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Latest edition
I. QI 90, fig. on p. 260
Other editions
 
Other publications
 

Text 801

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TrismegistosTM text 369521
Provenance
Qasr Ibrim
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
tomb 366 (T12), east wall
Excavation no.
 
Present location
unknown (lost)
Museum no.
 
Medium
wall
Technique
painted (dipinto)
Type of text
literary: biblical
Language
Coptic
Content
quotation from Matthew 1:1–7a
Date
probably 1000–1199
Notes
other inscriptions in the same tomb: DBMNT 962, 963, 964, 965, 966, 967
Material
plaster
Object dimensions
 
Text dimensions
H: 25; W: 29
Object colour
white
Text colour
black
Lines
11
Height of letters
 
Description
almost complete dipinto in black ink on whitewashed wall inside the tomb
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
upper lines considerably destroyed; big lacuna in in the middle of bottom lines
Date
probably 1000–1199
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Source
I. QI, fig. on p. 263
Image
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Source
 
Image
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Latest edition
I. QI 91 A, fig. on p. 263
Other editions
Plumley 1982a, p. 97
Other publications
Adams 1996, pp. 82–83; Łajtar – van der Vliet 2010, p. 715; Łajtar – van der Vliet 2015, pp. 112–118; Łajtar 2015–2016, p. 131 (no. 51); Łajtar 2020b, Appendix no. QI12 (cf. p. 186)

Text 802

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TrismegistosTM text 369522
Provenance
Qasr Ibrim
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
house 763, room 4, floor 3
Excavation no.
82.2.6/20 (reg. no. 82/339)
Present location
unknown
Museum no.
 
Medium
jewellery
Technique
casting
Type of text
name
Language
unidentified
Content
monogram of Ioannou
Date
1100–1299
Notes
Adams 1996 in description gives bronze, in caption copper, and in inventory copper or bronze; he wrongly interprets the monogram as that of Archangel Michael
Material
metal
Object dimensions
Diam: 5.7–5.9
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
traces of red paint
Lines
 
Height of letters
 
Description
round brooch with inscription on top side enclosed in decorative circle
Decorative elements
circle of double with dots placed regularly between them; 4 dots in 4 corners of the monogram
State of preservation
complete
Date
1100–1299
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Source
Adams 1996, pl. 50 e
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Source
 
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Latest edition
unpublished; mentioned in Adams 1996, pp. 181, 291, pl. 50 e–f
Other editions
 
Other publications
 

Text 803

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TrismegistosTM text 141879
Provenance
Meinarti
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
unknown
Excavation no.
6-K-3/138
Present location
Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.
SNM 18102
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Greek
Content
fragment of epitaph
Date
1000–1299
Notes
'God of the spirits' type
I. Khartoum Greek gives wrong excav. no. (198)
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 9; W: 9; Th: 6
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
greyish-brown
Text colour
 
Lines
3
Height of letters
c. 1.0
Description
fragment of rectangular (?) slab; epigraphic field framed by crudely incised line
Decorative elements
traces of lime mortar (paint?) on the margin
State of preservation
upper right corner with endings of 3 topmost lines and portions of upper and right margin; surface worn; lower part lost
Date
1000–1299
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Source
I. Khartoum Greek, pl. X
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Source
 
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Latest edition
I. Khartoum Greek 10, pl. 10
Other editions
 
Other publications
Adams 2001, pl. 35e (4); Adams 2002, p. 79, pl. 20c (4) (in caption wrongly identified with no. 3); Adams 2003, p. 72, pl. 7b (4)

Text 804

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TrismegistosTM text 141880
Provenance
Sagiet el-Abd
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
site 2-V-1
Excavation no.
2-V-1/1
Present location
Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.
SNM 23891
Medium
stela
Technique
relief
Type of text
unidentified
Language
Greek
Content
fragment of unidentified inscription
Date
600–1299
Notes
Abri-West district
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 15.5; W: 14; Th: 8
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
white
Text colour
 
Lines
3
Height of letters
c. 3.0
Description
fragment of rectangular stela or slab; epigraphic field framed by raised border with incised line in the middle; text in relief
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
lower right corner with endings of lines and portions of right and lower margins; upper part lost
Date
600–1299
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Source
I. Khartoum Greek, pl. XIII
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Source
 
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Latest edition
I. Khartoum Greek 13, pl. 13
Other editions
 
Other publications
Vila 1978a, p. 38, fig. 7.1