Text 12
- Provenance
- Hambukol
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- church on N kom, in entry to haikal, possibly above tomb of Mariankouda
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 30149
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of Mariankouda, tetrarch of Makuria; King Georgios mentioned
- Date
- 5 June 887
- Notes
- Material
- marble
- Object dimensions
- dia: c. 66
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- white
- Text colour
- Lines
- 29
- Height of letters
- 1.1-1.6
- Description
- round offering tray; epigraphic field surrounded by raised border
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- found in 9 pieces; two small pieces of epigraphic field lacking; bottom border not preserved
- Date
- 5 June 887
- Chronological systems
- Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar
king's occurrence
- Dating formulae
- ⲉⲛ ⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲡⲁⲩⲛⲓ ⲓ︦ⲁ︥̄ : ⲙⲉⲛ ⲉ[ⲧⲟⲩ]ⲥ ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣⲧⲩⲣⲱⲛ ⲭ̄︤ⲅ︥̄
- Transcription
- "in the month of Payni, (day) 11, in the year from the Martyrs 603" (l. 15)
- Months
- ⲡⲁⲩⲛⲓ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- tetrarch of Makuria (ⲧⲉⲧⲣⲁⲣⲭⲏⲥ ⲧⲏⲥ ⲙⲁⲕⲟⲩⲣⲓⲁⲥ ⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): ll. 14–15
king (ⲃⲁⲥⲓⲗⲉⲱⲥ): l. 18
ceasar (ⲧⲟⲛ ⲕⲁⲓⲥⲁⲣⲁ): l. 19
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Makuria (ⲧⲏⲥ ⲙⲁⲕⲟⲩⲣⲓⲁⲥ ⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): ll. 14–15
- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Greek 18, pl. 17
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Leclant – Clerc 1998, p. 422; Anderson 1999, p. 74, pl. 36; Catalogue London 2004, p. 307 (no. 318); CSBE(2), p. 82; Brakmann 2006, pp. 299, 316; Tsakos 2009b, p. 202 (no. 4); Hägg 2010a, pp. 620–1; van der Vliet 2011a, p. 207; CSCN, p. 68; Godlewski 2014, p. 71; Łajtar 2014b, n. 1 on p. 221
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