Text 1456

Provenance
Soba
Region
Alwa
Findspot
not recorded
Excavation no.
 
Present location
Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin
Museum no.
ÄM 2262
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Old Nubian
Content
probably epitaph; name of Georgios mentioned
Date
900–1499
Notes
 
Material
marble
Object dimensions
H: 42
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
black on backside
Lines
i: 15; ii: 12
Height of letters
 
Description
fragment of rectangular (?) stela inscribed on both sides; ruling in 2 different hands; ruling on both sides; epigraphic field on side i framed by incised line; last line on side i written on flat margin below incised frame
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
fragmentary; put together of 2 pieces; portion of lower and one side margin preserved
Date
900–1499
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
Lepsius 1849–59: 6 (plates), 11, pl. 12a
Image
Image not available
Source
Lepsius 1849–59: 6 (plates), 11, pl. 12b
Image
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Latest edition
Zyhlarz 1928, pp. 191–2
Other editions
 
Other publications
Lepsius 1849–59: 5 (text), pp. 347–8; 6 (plates), 11, pl. 12a–b; Erman 1899, p. 414 (description); Schäfer – Schmidt 1906, p. 784; Ermann 1881, pp. 112, 114; Shinnie 1955, p. 15 (no. 1); Munro-Hay 1982/3, p. 115
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