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TrismegistosTM text 832995

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Content: part of DBMNT 2896
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TrismegistosTM text 832996

Provenance: Sonqi Tino
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: church, room 3 (south pastophorium), north wall
Excavation no.: DON51
Present location: not preserved
Museum no.

Medium: wall
Technique: incised (graffito)
Type of text: visitor's inscription
Language: unidentified
Content: inscription of unidentified archbishop of Axum
Date: 1000–1399
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Material: plaster
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Text dimensions: not recorded
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Lines: 1
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Description: inscription incised in plaster
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State of preservation: fragmentary, beginning lost

Date: 1000–1399
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Offices & titles: archbishop (ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲉⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍): l. 1

Toponyms & ethnonyms: Axum (ⲁ̣ⲝⲟⲩ⸌ⲙ̣⸍): l. 1

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Łajtar – Ochała 2017b, fig. 1
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Latest edition: Łajtar – Ochała 2017b, pp. 258–60, fig. 1
Other editions: Laisney 2012, p. 606 (no. 4), fig. 2

Other publications: CIEN 5, no. 71

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TrismegistosTM text 832997

Provenance: Sonqi Tino
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: church, room 3 (south pastophorium), east wall, to the left of head of John the Baptist, below legend to the painting (DBMNT 3144)
Excavation no.: DON44
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.

Medium: wall
Technique: incised (graffito)
Type of text: visitor's inscription
Language: Greek
Content: inscription of Paiel (?), deacon
Date: 1000–1399
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Material: plaster
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Text dimensions: not recorded
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Lines: 2
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Description: inscription incised in plaster to the right of head of depiction of John the Baptist, in corner between vertical and horizontal lines with legend to the painting (DBMNT 3144)
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State of preservation: complete

Date: 1000–1399
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Offices & titles: deacon of great (Church of) Jesus (ⲓ̄ⲥ̄ ⲙⲉ⸌ⲅ⸍ ⲇⲓⲁ⸌ⲕ⸍): l. 1

Toponyms & ethnonyms: great (Church of) Jesus (ⲓ̄ⲥ̄ ⲙⲉ⸌ⲅ⸍): l. 1

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Source: Laisney 2012, fig. 3
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Latest edition: Laisney 2012, p. 607 (no. 5), fig. 3
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TrismegistosTM text 832998

Provenance: Sonqi Tino
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: church, room 3 (south pastophorium), east wall; below DBMNT 2921
Excavation no.: DON46
Present location: Museum of University La Sapienza, Rome
Museum no.

Medium: wall
Technique: incised (graffito)
Type of text: visitor's inscription
Language: Old Nubian
Content: inscription of Kaioun (?)
Date: 1000–1399
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Material: plaster
Object dimensions
Text dimensions: not recorded
Object colour
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Lines: 1
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Description: inscription incised in plaster
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State of preservation: complete

Date: 1000–1399
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Source: Laisney 2012, fig. 4
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Latest edition: Laisney 2012, pp. 607–8 (no. 6), fig. 4
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TrismegistosTM text 832999

Provenance: Sonqi Tino
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: church, room 3 (south pastophorium), south wall; to the right of the head of the painted figure of St Stephen, below Text 4960
Excavation no.: DON34/2
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.: SNM 24355a

Medium: wall
Technique: incised (graffito)
Type of text: visitor's inscription
Language: Greek
Content: inscription of Agapos, deacon
Date: 1000–1399
Notes: This is probably the same man as Agapos the deacon found in Semna (DBMNT 987; REF 700644).

Material: plaster
Object dimensions
Text dimensions: not recorded
Object colour
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Lines: 2
Height of letters

Description: inscription incised in plaster
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete, but damaged in central part of line 2

Date: 1000–1399
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Offices & titles: deacon (ⲇⲓⲁ⸌ⲕ⸍): l. 2

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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Laisney 2012, fig. 5
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Latest edition: Laisney 2012, p. 608 (no. 7), fig. 5
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Other publications: Żurawski 2012, p. 212, fig. 28

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TrismegistosTM text 833000

Provenance: Sonqi Tino
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: church, room 4 (north vestibule), east wall; below painting of Nativity
Excavation no.: DON9
Present location: Museo del Vicino Oriente e Mediterraneo, Rome (?)
Museum no.

Medium: wall
Technique: incised (graffito)
Type of text: visitor's inscription
Language: Greek/Old Nubian
Content: inscription left by Kouda, including beginning of Hail Mary prayer
Date: 1000–1399
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Material: plaster
Object dimensions
Text dimensions: not recorded
Object colour
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Lines: 2
Height of letters

Description: two lines of inscription incised in plaster
Decorative elements
State of preservation: incomplete, beginning of line 1 and ending of line 2 lost, lacunae in central part

Date: 1000–1399
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Source: Laisney 2012, fig. 6
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Latest edition: Laisney 2012, p. 609 (no. 9), fig. 6
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TrismegistosTM text 833001

Provenance: Sonqi Tino
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: church, room 6 (south vestibule), east wall
Excavation no.: DON32
Present location: not preserved
Museum no.

Medium: wall
Technique: incised (graffito)
Type of text: name of divine entity/saint
Language: unidentified
Content: name of (Archangel) Michael
Date: 1000–1399
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Material: plaster
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Text dimensions: not recorded
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Lines: 1
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Description: one line of inscription incised in plaster
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete

Date: 1000–1399
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Laisney 2012, fig. 7
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Latest edition: Laisney 2012, p. 609 (no. 10), fig. 7
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TrismegistosTM text 833002

Provenance: Sonqi Tino
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: church, room 3 (south pastophorium), east wall
Excavation no.: DON47
Present location: not preserved
Museum no.

Medium: wall
Technique: incised (graffito)
Type of text: name of divine entity/saint
Language: unidentified
Content: name of (Archangel) Michael
Date: 1000–1399
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Material: plaster
Object dimensions
Text dimensions: not recorded
Object colour
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Lines: 1
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Description: one line of inscription incised in plaster
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete, but unfinished

Date: 1000–1399
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Source: Laisney 2012, fig. 4
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Latest edition: Laisney 2012, p. 609 (no. 11), fig. 4
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TrismegistosTM text 833003

Provenance: Ghazali
Region: Makuria
Findspot: Polish-Sudanese excavations, re-used in pavement of northern church
Excavation no.: G.12.03 = Gh.047.2.2014
Present location: Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
Museum no.: not registered

Medium: stela
Technique: incised before firing
Type of text: epitaph
Language: unidentified
Content: fragment of epitaph
Date: 700–999
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Material: terracotta
Object dimensions: H: 21; W: 15; Th: 1.5–2
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Object colour: core black, front red; back red
Text colour
Lines: 2 (3 reconstructed)
Height of letters: c. 1 (ⲣ: 2)

Description: Lower left-hand part of a rectangular plaque with a large fragment of the left margin and a smaller of the lower one; lower left corner broken off. The epigraphic field framed by incised line, preserved in the left margin.

Porous Nile clay with considerable organic and mineral admixture (mica, quartzite).
Decorative elements
State of preservation: fragmentary; fragment of lower left-hand part; lower left corner broken off; surface almost completely eroded and defaced, text preserved only in lower left corner

Date: 700–999
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