Text 1659
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- Anchorite's Grotto, south wall; below panels nos. 22 & 23 (DBMNT 1642–3)
- Excavation no.
- gr. 5
- Present location
- not preserved
- Museum no.
- Medium
- wall
- Technique
- incised (graffito)
- Type of text
- visitor's inscription
- Language
- unidentified
- Content
- inscription left by abba Kyrou
- Date
- probably 866–902
- Notes
- abba Kyrou perhaps identical with Bishop Kyros of Pachoras (cf. DBMNT 86, 97, and 1817)
- Material
- plaster
- Object dimensions
- Text dimensions
- not recorded
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 1
- Height of letters
- Description
- 1 line of incised inscription
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete
- Date
- probably 866–902
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- abba (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): l. 1
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- Griffith 1927, pl. 64.1
- Image
-
- Source
- Griffith 1927, pl. 73.5
- Image
-
- Latest edition
- Griffith 1927, p. 90 (gr. 5), pls. 64.1, 73.5; I. Faras Copt., p. 96, with n. 44
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 190; Lethmayer – Zach 1986, p. 142
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