Text 1397
- Provenance
- Wadi el-Sebua
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- temple-church, vestibule of western chapel, west wall, to the left of entrance to the chapel; written across painting of Apostle Peter
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- not preserved
- Museum no.
- Medium
- wall
- Technique
- painted (dipinto)
- Type of text
- private prayer
- Language
- Greek/Old Nubian
- Content
- prayer to Apostle Peter for Petro, priest
- Date
- 900–1499
- Notes
- Griffith and Zyhlarz wrongly interpreted last line as dating formula
subscription of scribe in Greek
- Material
- plaster
- Object dimensions
- Text dimensions
- H: 10; W: 36
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 8
- Height of letters
- Description
- eight lines of painted text
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete; ink obliterated in places
- Date
- 900–1499
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲓⲁ ⲉ̄ⲗⲟ̣
- Transcription
- “on Epeiph 5” (l. 8)
- Months
- ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲓⲁ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- priest (⳦): l. 7
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- (church of) Peter in Mohondi (= Ikhmindi) (ⲙⲟϩⲱⲛⲇⲛ̄ ⲡⲉⲧ̣ⲣⲟⲥⲓ): l. 6
Mohondi (= Ikhmindi) (ⲙⲟϩⲱⲛⲇⲛ̄): l. 6
(church of) Christ in Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲭ̄ⲥ̄ ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): l. 7
(church of) the Cross in Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲥⲧⲁⲩⲣⲟⲥ ⲡ̣ⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): l. 7
Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): l. 7 (x2)
- Latest edition
- Łajtar – Ochała forthcoming (b), no. 22
- Other editions
- Griffith 1913, pp. 60–62, no. 4, pl. 3 (bottom); Zyhlarz 1928, pp. 169–170; Monneret de Villard 1935–1957: 1, pp. 72, 88, 188; 2, pl. 41; 4, pl. 139; Browne 1995c, pp. 17–21
- Other publications
- Gau 1822, pl. 44d; Letronne 1832, p. 109 (= 1881, pp. 98–99); Griffith 1925, p. 263; Monneret de Villard 1937, p. 65; Monneret de Villard 1938, p. 81; I. Faras Copt., p. 170; Jakobielski 1995b, pp. 30–34; Browne 1998c, p. 25; Łajtar – Van der Vliet 1998, p. 44, no. 1; Richter 2002, p. 156; Łajtar 2015d, p. 291; Van Gerven Oei 2015b, pp. 22, 39; Beinlich 2018, p. 2006; Łajtar 2021, p. 170
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