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Provenance: Dendur
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: temple, left jamb of south entrance to pronaos
Excavation no.
Present location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum no.

Medium: wall
Technique: incised & painted (inscription)
Type of text: foundation inscription
Language: Coptic
Content: foundation inscription of church in temple of Dendur by Abraham, priest; mentioning king Irpanome
Date: circa 536–569
Notes

Material: stone
Object dimensions: H: 48; W: 68
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour: red
Lines: 14
Height of letters

Description: inscription incised on stone block
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete

Date: circa 536–569
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
king's occurrence

Dating formulae: ⲥⲟⲩ ϫⲟⲩⲱⲧⲥⲁϣϥⲉ ⲛ̄ⲧⲱⲃⲉ ⲕ︤ⲍ̄
Transcription: "day twenty-seven of (the month of) Tybi, 27" (ll. 9)
Months: ⲧⲱⲃⲉ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: king (ⲡⲣⲣⲟ): l. 2
exarch of Talmis (= Kalabsha) (ⲡⲉⲝⲁⲣⲭⲋ ⲛ̄ⲧⲁⲗⲙⲉⲱⲥ): ll. 3-4
bishop of Philae (ⲡⲉⲡⲓⲥⲕⲋ ⲙ̄ⲡⲓⲗⲁⲕ): l. 5
priest (ⲡⲣⲉⲥⲃⲩⲧⲉⲣⲟⲥ): l. 6
eunuch (ⲡⲉⲥⲓⲟⲩⲣ): l. 10
stepharis (ⲥⲧⲉⲫⲁⲣⲓⲥ): l. 11
domestikos (ⲥⲁⲙⲁⲧⲁ): l. 11
courier (ⲃⲉⲣⲓⲧⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ): l. 12

Toponyms & ethnonyms: Talmis (= Kalabsha) (ⲧⲁⲗⲙⲉⲱⲥ): l. 4
Philae (ⲡⲓⲗⲁⲕ): l. 5

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Ochała 2011
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Source: Blackman 1911, pl. CIV, fig. 2
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Richter 2002, pp. 164–172
Other editions: Revillout 1874, pp. 373–382; Blackman 1911, pp. 36–37, pl. 104, fig. 2; Kraus 1930, pp. 111–114; FHN 3, pp. 1194–1196 (no. 330)

Other publications: Lepsius 1849–1859: 5 (text), p. 49; 6 (plates), 12, pl. 103, 39; Krall 1898, pp. 19–20, n. 6 (transcription); Maspero (J.) 1909, pp. 305–311; Monneret de Villard 1935–1957: 1, p. 45, fig. 34; 4, pl. 133; Donadoni 1959, p. 462; Vantini 1970, p. 53; Aldred 1978, p. 52, fig. 36; Roquet 1978b, p. 536; Demicheli 1978, pp. 195–198; Munro-Hay 1982/3, pp. 94–95; Welsby 2002, p. 37, fig. 12; van der Vliet 2005, p. 222; Brakmann 2006, p. 310; Dijkstra 2008, pp. 300–302 (translation and commentary); Ochała 2011b, pp. 217–224; CSCN, n. 8 on p. 102; Werner 2013, pp. 54–55 with n. 34 (translation) & 36; Dijkstra 2013, pp. 117–118 (translation and commentary); Ochała 2016a, p. 1270 with n. 15

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

Medium: rock
Technique: incised (graffito)
Type of text: visitor's inscription
Language: Greek
Content: inscription left by Isoud( ), cleric, son of Zacharias
Date: 8 September 995
Notes: year 712 of Diocletian followed a leap year,which is why the date should be 8 September

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

Description
Decorative elements
State of preservation

Date: 8 September 995
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
Era of Diocletian

Dating formulae: ⲁⲡⲟⲇⲓ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲯⲓⲃ : ⲑⲱ︦ⲑ ⲓ︦ :
Transcription: "(in the year) from Diocletian 712, Thoth 10" (l. 2)
Months: ⲑⲱ︦ⲑ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: cleric (ⲕ︦ⲗ︦ⲏ︦): l. 1

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Adams – Plumley 1974, pl. LI
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: unpublished; mentioned in Plumley – Adams 1974, p. 235, pl. 51; Łajtar – van der Vliet 2013, pp. 160, 163
Other editions

Other publications: I. QI 19, commentary

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Provenance: Amantogo
Region: Makuria
Findspot: not recorded
Excavation no.
Present location: Hermitage Museum, St Peresburg
Museum no.

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: fragment of epitaph of Taia
Date: 29 August 938–29 August 939
Notes: near Dongola
year 656 from Diocletian was a leap year, ending on 29 August

Material: unidentified
Object dimensions: not recorded
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 7
Height of letters

Description
Decorative elements
State of preservation

Date: 29 August 938–29 August 939
Chronological systems: Era of the Incarnation
Era of the Martyrs
Era of Diocletian

Dating formulae: [---]ⲉⲓⲁ ⲭ̄︤ⲩ̄︥ Ͳ̣[ⲙ̄︤ⲍ︥̄ ---] ⲭ·ⲛⲉ· …
Transcription: "[in the year from the] Incarnation of Christ 9[31], [in the year from Diocletian] 655" (ll. 1–2)
Months
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Elanskaia 1977, fig. 10
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Elanskaia 1977, pp. 273–7, fig. 10
Other editions

Other publications: CSBE(2), p. 79; CSCN, table 11 on p. 72, p. 186, with n. 6, pp. 192–3

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Provenance: Gebel Barkal
Region: Makuria
Findspot: Reisner's trench Barkal 500 A, N of first pylon of Great Temple (Barkal 500)
Excavation no.: reg. no. 16-2-152
Present location: unknown
Museum no.

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of Elisabet
Date: 700–999
Notes

Material: unidentified
Object dimensions: H: 55; W: 32
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 11
Height of letters

Description: roughly rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by incised line, ruled
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete

Date: 700–999
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲭⲓⲁⲭ
Transcription: "in the month of Choiak" (ll. 9–10)
Months: ⲭⲓⲁⲭ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Reisner 1917, pl. I.2
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Łajtar 1996a, pp. 85–8 (no. 3)
Other editions: Reisner 1917, pp. 197–8, pl. I.2; Saint Paul-Girard 1922, pp. 111–12; SEG 2 883; Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 257; Junker 1938, pp. 281–5; SB 5 8758 (= 8948)

Other publications: Calder 1926, p. 127; Bull. épigr. 1940, 206; Zychlarz 1943, n. 2 on p. 251; Burstein 1995, fig. 1; Žabkar 1967, p. 17; Vantini 2009, p. 27; SEG 46 2184

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Provenance: Debeira West
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: site R-8, room 68
Excavation no.: 181
Present location: unknown
Museum no.

Medium: ostrakon
Technique: painted
Type of text: document: economic
Language: Coptic
Content: receipt (?)
Date: 17 July 980–6 July 981
Notes

Material: ceramic
Object dimensions: not recorded
Text dimensions: not recorded
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: re: 8; ve: 2
Height of letters

Description: potsherd with text written on both sides
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete; ink obliterated in places

Date: 17 July 980–6 July 981
Chronological systems: Era of the Saracens

Dating formulae: ⲁⲡⲟⲩ ⲥⲁⲣⲁⲕⲏ̄ ⲧⲟ
Transcription: "(in the year) from the Saracens 370 (?)" (l. 2, 'obverse')
Months
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Shinnie – Shinnie 1978, pl. 52.181
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Source: Shinnie – Shinnie 1978, pl. 52.181
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Shinnie – Shinnie 1978, p. 97 (no. 181), pl. 52.181
Other editions

Other publications: Ochała 2009, pp. 148–9; CSCN, pp. 159–60

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Provenance: Debeira West
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: site R-8, room 90a, level 2
Excavation no.: 411
Present location: unknown
Museum no.

Medium: ostrakon
Technique: painted
Type of text: document: economic
Language: Coptic
Content: unidentified document
Date: 900–999
Notes

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

Description: fragment of potsherd with painted inscription
Decorative elements
State of preservation: fragmentary; upper left corner preserved

Date: 900–999
Chronological systems: Era of the Saracens

Dating formulae: ⲥⲁⲣⲁⲕⲏ[--- ⲁⲡ]ⲟⲩ ⲥⲁⲣⲁ[---]
Transcription: "(in the year from the) Saracens [ ] from the Saracens" (ll. 2–3)
Months
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Shinnie – Shinnie 1978, pl. 52.411
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Shinnie – Shinnie 1978, p. 100 (no. 411), pl. 53.411
Other editions

Other publications: Ochała 2009, pp. 148–9; CSCN, pp. 159–60

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Provenance: Arminna West
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: apse of small N church
Excavation no.: Reg. No. 222, AWH Find No. 95
Present location: unknown
Museum no.

Medium: stela
Technique: incised before firing
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek/Coptic
Content: epitaph of Marianta, daughter of Ptoou and Mariam
Date: 17 November 920
Notes: Simpson 1964 and SBKopt. – AD 921

Material: terracotta
Object dimensions: H: 37; W: 23.5
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 16
Height of letters

Description: oval plaque; edges slightly raised
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete

Date: 17 November 920
Chronological systems: Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ⲁⲑⲩⲣ ⲕⲁ︥ ⲁⲡⲟ⸌ⲙ⸍ ⲭⲗ︦ⲍ
Transcription: "Athyr 21, (in the year) from the Martyrs 637" (l. 7)
Months: ⲁⲑⲩⲣ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Simpson 1964, pl. XIV, fig. 17
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: SB Kopt. 1 460
Other editions: Simpson 1964, pp. 21–2, pl. 14, fig. 17; Trigger 1967, pp. 14, 85, pl. 8c; Simpson 1967, pp. 181–3, pl. 7

Other publications: Trigger 1970, p. 377; Welsby 2002, p. 62; CSBE(2), p. 79, n. 73; Tsakos 2010a, p. 683 (no. 4); CSCN, table 11 on p. 72, n. 78 on p. 75; NOM 3, no. 11, fig. 4 (reedition of ll. 5–6); CIEN 7, no. 33

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Provenance: Aniba
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: not recorded
Excavation no.
Present location: Ägyptisches Museum der Universität Leipzig (lost)
Museum no.: 3623

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of woman Tanastasia
Date: 700–899
Notes: pronoia-type
bought by Steindorff at Aswan

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 37; W: 27
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 15
Height of letters

Description: rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by double incised lines
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete; lower margin slightly damaged

Date: 700–899
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
indiction

Dating formulae: ⲙⲏⲛ ⲉⲡⲓⲫ ⲕⲇ ⲓⲛⲇ/ ⲅ
Transcription: "in the month of Epeiph, (day) 24, in the 3rd indiction" (ll. 7–8)
Months: ⲉⲡⲓⲫ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Richter 2013, pl. 37
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Richter 2013, pp. 147–9 (no. 67), pl. 37
Other editions: Monneret de Villard 1925, p. 250; SB 3 7190; Steindorff 1941, pp. 205–6 (no. I), fig. 1; SEG 8 864; I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 40; SEG 26 1716

Other publications: Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 108; Tibiletti Bruno 1963, passim; Žabkar 1967, p. 16; Boyaval 1976a, p. 23; Rochter 2013, p. 126; CIEN 1, no. 35

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Provenance: Qasr Ibrim – Faras region
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.
Present location: Ägyptisches Museum der Universität Leipzig (lost)
Museum no.: 3621

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Coptic
Content: epitaph of woman Anna, daughter of Mariampe
Date: 15 November 934
Notes: pronoia-type
bought by Steindorff in Aswan

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 32; W: 30
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 15
Height of letters

Description: roughly square slab
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete but lower and upper margins damaged

Date: 15 November 934
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
Era of Diocletian

Dating formulae: ⲁⲑⲱⲣ ⲓⲑ
ⲁⲡⲟ̣ [ⲇⲓ]ⲟ̣ⳤ ⲭⲛⲁ
Transcription: "Athyr 19" (l. 11)
"(in the year) from Diocletian 651" (l. 15)
Months: ⲁⲑⲱⲣ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms: village of Mashlo below Eor-West (ⲡϯⲙⲉ ⲙⲙⲁ̇ϣⲗ̇ⲱ̇ ϩⲓⲡⲉⲥⲏⲧ ⲛⲉⲱⲣ̄ ⲡⲉⲙⲛⲧ): l. 8–9
Eor-West (ⲉⲱⲣ̄ ⲡⲉⲙⲛⲧ): l. 9

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Richter 2013, pl. 39
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Richter 2013, pp. 152–3 (no. 69), pl. 39
Other editions: Steindorff 1941, pp. 206–7 (no. II), fig. 2

Other publications: CSCN, table 11 on p. 72; CIEN 1, no. 45

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Provenance: Qasr Ibrim – Faras region
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.
Present location: Ägyptisches Museum der Universität Leipzig (lost)
Museum no.: 3620

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Coptic
Content: epitaph of woman Anna Osa
Date: 900–999
Notes: pronoia-type (reconstructed)
bought by Steindorff in Aswan

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 29; W: 26
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: front: 15
back: 2
Height of letters

Description: rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by incised line; on the back side 2 lines of texts (no photo available)
Decorative elements
State of preservation: incomplete; upper part broken off; in right margin small rectangular cavity

Date: 900–999
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ⲛ̄ⲥⲟⲩ ϫⲟⲩϣⲟⲙⲛ̄ⲧ ⲛ̄ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲏ
Transcription: "on the twenty-third of (the month of) Epeiph" (ll. 4–5)
Months: ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲏ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Richter 2013, pl. 38
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Richter 2013, pp. 149–51 (no. 68), pl. 38
Other editions: Steindorff 1941, pp. 207–8 (no. III), fig. 3

Other publications: CIEN 1, no. 44

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Provenance: Argin
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: not recorded
Excavation no.
Present location: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Museum no.: Acc. No. E.SS.72

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of woman Angelosko
Date: 1100–1199
Notes: wrong reading in I. Fitzwilliam

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 48.5; W: 26.5; Th: 8
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 26
Height of letters

Description: rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by raised border; line 1 written on upper border
Decorative elements
State of preservation: surface much worn; whole cut in middle of line one (probably reused as doorstep); bottom margin considerably damaged

Date: 1100–1199
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
Era of the Martyrs
lunar calendar

Dating formulae: ⲧ ̣ⲙ ̣ ̣[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣]ⲟⲩ ̣ ̣ ⲏⲙⲉⲣⲁ ⲗ̄
ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁ ̣ⲇ ⲧⲟⲛ ⲧⲏⲛ ⲥⲉⲗⲗⲉⲛⲏ ⲓ︤ⲋ̄︥ …

(corrected by Ochała)
Transcription: "in the month of Pharmouthi (?), day 30" (l. 21)
"(in the year) from the Martyrs [..]4 [ ] on the 16th moon (day)" (ll. 23–4)
Months: ⲫⲁⲣⲙ]ⲟⲩ[ⲑⲓ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: I. Fitzwilliam, fig. on p. 158
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Source: I. Fitzwilliam, fig. on p. 158
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Fitzwilliam 111, figs. on pp. 158, 159
Other editions

Other publications: Hägg 2010a, pp. 621–2

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Provenance: Nilwatti island
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: not recorded
Excavation no.
Present location: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Museum no.: Acc. No. E.65.1903

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Coptic
Content: fragment of epitaph
Date: probably 800–999
Notes: near Sai

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 11.2; W: 24.5; Th: 2.5
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 5
Height of letters

Description: lower part of rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by incised line
Decorative elements
State of preservation: lower part preserved; put together from 2 fragments; surface very much worn; almost illegible

Date: probably 800–999
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: [---] ̣ ⲡ̣ⲁ̣[ⲟⲡⲉ]
[---ⲡ]ⲁ̣ⲟⲡⲉ
Transcription: "Phaophi" (ll. 1–2)
"Phaophi" (l. 5)
Months: ⲡ̣ⲁ̣[ⲟⲡⲉ], [ⲡ]ⲁ̣ⲟⲡⲉ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: I. Fitzwilliam, fig. on p. 178
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Source: I. Fitzwilliam, fig. on p. 179
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Latest edition: I. Fitzwilliam 120, figs. on pp. 178, 179
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