Text 15

Provenance
Dongola
Region
Makuria
Findspot
Church of Granite Columns, chapel adjoining baptistery from east, buried in pavement
Excavation no.
D.42/67-68
Present location
Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.
SNM 23063
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Greek
Content
epitaph of Ioannes, protomeizoteros and eparch of Gadera (?); king Zacharias mentioned
Date
14 December 883
Notes
'God of the spirits' type (3rd oldest attestation)
I. Khartoum Greek 21 – 10 December; 14 December, because AM 600 after the leap year
Material
marble
Object dimensions
H: 42.5; W: 37.2; Th: 8
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
grey-blue
Text colour
 
Lines
15
Height of letters
1.5-1.9
Description
lower part of rectangular slab, originally probably twice as high
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
only lower part preserved, but in very good condition
Date
14 December 883
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
Era of the Martyrs
king's occurrence
Dating formulae
ⲉⲛ ⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲭ • ⲓ︦ⲍ︥̄ • ⲙⲉⲛ ⲉⲧⲟⲩ ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣⲧⲩⲣⲱⲛ ⲭ̄
Transcription
"in the month Choiak, (day) 17, in the year from the Martyrs 600" (ll. 13–14)
Months
ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲭ
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
eparch of Gadera (?) (ⲉⲡⲁⲣⲭⲟⲥ ⲧⲱⲛ ⲅⲁⲇⲏⲣⲱⲛ): l. 12
protomeizoteros (ⲡⲣⲱⲧⲟⲙⲉⲓⲍⲱⲧⲉⲣⲟⲥ): ll. 12–13
Augustus (= king?) (ⲁⲩⲅⲟⲩⲥⲧⲟⲩ): l. 13
Toponyms & ethnonyms
Gadera (?) (ⲧⲱⲛ ⲅⲁⲇⲏⲣⲱⲛ): l. 12
Source
I. Khartoum Greek, pl. XX
Image
Image not available
Source
Dzierżykray-Rogalski – Jakobielski 1975a, drawing on p. 48
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
I. Khartoum Greek 21, pl. 20
Other editions
Łajtar 1997a, pp. 119–20, no. 3
Other publications
Jakobielski – Krzyżaniak 1967/8, p. 163, pls. 32a, 33; Leclant 1968, p. 123; Leclant 1969, p. 294, pl. 49 (70); Dzierżykray-Rogalski – Jakobielski 1975a, pp. 44–5, drawing on p. 48; Munro-Hay 1982/3, pp. 106–7; Hägg 1990, pp. 159, 162; Gartkiewicz 1990, pp. 258–61, fig. 150; Łajtar 1996c, p. 107, no. 30; Jakobielski 2001b, p. 30; CSBE(2), p. 82; CSCN, p. 68, table 11 on p. 71; Vantini 2009, p. 105 + fig; Godlewski 2013a, p. 57; Łajtar 2014b, p. 227; Berkes 2017, p. 117, table on p. 119
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