Text 1287
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- burial 372 (= burial 5)
- Excavation no.
- 66.2.23/5 (reg. no. 66/42)
- Present location
- British Museum, London
- Museum no.
- EA71952
- Medium
- figurine
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- owner's inscription
- Language
- unidentified
- Content
- figurine of angel with inscription on the back consisting of personal name Tapara (perhaps owner of the object) and the name of Archangel Michael
- Date
- 800–1199
- Notes
- dated by archaeological context
- Material
- wood
- Object dimensions
- H: 11.5; W: 6.5
- Text dimensions
- H: 6; W: 6
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 6
- Height of letters
- Description
- figurine of angel with inscription incised on the back; name of Michael arranged in form of cross
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- object complete; inscription complete
- Date
- 800–1199
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- Adams 2010, pl. 38a–b
- Image
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- Source
- Adams 2010, fig. 51
- Image
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- Latest edition
- unpublished; mentioned in Adams 2010, pp. 195–9, 302 (inventory), fig. 51, pl. 38a–b
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Plumley 1966, p. 11, pl. 4.4; Plumley 1970, p. 133, il. 81; Ruffini 2012a, p. 215 with n. 34
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