Text 17

Provenance
Dongola
Region
Makuria
Findspot
kom P, house PCH 1, near tombstone of Petros, close to southern doorjamb of west entrance to north court
Excavation no.
D.31/89
Present location
Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.
SNM 27593
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Greek
Content
epitaph of Zacharias (?), priest
Date
24 March 824–24 March 825
Notes
first date reconstructed on the basis of the second one
Material
marble
Object dimensions
H: 28; W: 18; Th: 4.1
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
grey-blue
Text colour
 
Lines
16
Height of letters
1.1-1.2
Description
lower right part of rectangular slab
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
lower right part preserved with right border; put together from three fragments
Date
24 March 824–24 March 825
Chronological systems
Era of the World Creation
Era of the Incarnation
Dating formulae
ⲁⲡⲟ ⲕⲟ]ⲥⲙⲟⲡⲟⲓⲉⲓⲁⲥ ⲏ̇ⲥ [ⲋⲧⲓⲋ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣] ̣ ⲭ︤̄ⲩ︦ ⲱ̄︦ⲓ︦ⲋ̄︥
Transcription
"(in the year) from the Creation of the World [6316 ---, in the year from] (the birth of) Christ 816 [---]" (ll. 10–11)
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
I. Khartoum Greek, pl. XXIII
Image
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Source
 
Image
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Latest edition
I. Khartoum Greek 24, pl. 23
Other editions
Łajtar 1991, pp. 159–62 (Ann. Epigr. 1995, 1618); Łajtar 1997a, pp. 125–6, no. 11
Other publications
Godlewski 1991, p. 85; Jakobielski 2001b, p. 40; CSCN, pp. 193, 199
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