Text 1
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- cathedral, western group of bishops’ tombs, immured in the western façade of the cathedral (in blockage of the western entrance), above the tomb
- Excavation no.
- F 388/61-62 (neg. nos. Fa.61/2.0469, Fa.61/2.0471, Fa.61/2.0484, Fa.61/2.0650, Fa.61/2.0661, Fa.62/3.0820, Fa.62/3.0820a)
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 23377
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of Kollouthos, bishop of Pachoras
- Date
- 13 August 923
- Notes
- the 532-year cycle ended on 24 March 893 but the redactor did not stop counting years
- Material
- marble
- Object dimensions
- H. 63; W: 53; Th: 4-13
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- white with cream-blue patina
- Text colour
- red
- Lines
- 15
- Height of letters
- 1.3-1.5
- Description
- rectangular slab with large circular hole at bottom; 7 cm high border along preserved edges; probably fragment of offering tray
- Decorative elements
- in corners letters painted in red to form a cross
- State of preservation
- text preserved in full although stone is just a fragment of a larger object, re-used as stela
- Date
- 13 August 923
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
Era of the World Creation
indiction (Constantinopolitan)
Era of the Incarnation
Alexandrian cycle of 532 years
Era of Diocletian
- Dating formulae
- ⲉⲛ ⲧⲏ • ⲕ ⲧⲟⲩ ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲣⲏ ⲙⲏⲛⲟⲥ • ⲁⲡⲟ ⲕⲟⲥⲙⲟⲩ • ⲋ̄︤ⲩ︦ⲓ︦ⲉ̄︥ • ⲡⲉⲣⲓⲟⲇⲟⲥ • ⲫⲝⲅ ⲓⲛ⸌ⲇ⸍ • ⲓ̄ⲁ︥̄ • ⲁⲡⲟ ⲭ̄︤ⲩ︦ ↑̄ⲓ︦ⲉ̄︥ • ⲁⲡ⸌ⲟ⸍ ⲇⲓⲟⳤ • ⲭ̄︤ⲗ︦ⲑ̄︥
- Transcription
- "on (day) 20 of the month of Mesore, (year) from (the creation of) the world 6415, period, (year) 563, in the 11th indiction, (year) from (the birth of) Christ 915, (year) from Diocletian 639" (ll. 4–6)
- Months
- ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲣⲏ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- abba (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): l. 4
bishop (ⲉⲡⲓⲥⲕⲟⲡⲟⲩ): l. 4
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- neg. no. Fa.62/3.0820 (= I. Khartoum Greek, pl. 1)
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Greek 1, pl. 1
- Other editions
- Jakobielski 1965, pp. 164–6, no. 3, fig. 87; I. Faras Greek 5, fig. 6
- Other publications
- Michałowski 1962c, p. 120; Michałowski 1963b, p. 244, pl. 55b; Michałowski 1964b, p. 86, fig. 40; Michałowski 1965a, pp. 72–6 (context), fig. 43; Bull.épigr. 1966, 498; Michałowski 1967, p. 80; Jakobielski 1969, pp. 501–2; I. Faras Copt., pp. 102–4; Quecke 1975, pp. 458–9; Jakobielski 1975a, p. 236; Hagedorn 1976, p. 184; CSBE(2), p. 79; Brakmann 2006, p. 301; CSCN, pp. 115, 122, 193, 196–7, 199
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