Text 178
- Provenance
- Sakinya
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- not recorded
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Coptic Museum, Cairo
- Museum no.
- 6741
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek/Coptic
- Content
- two epitaphs of the same person (?) - Elisabet - on two sides of stela - one in Greek, other in Coptic
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Till 1948 reconstructs last numeral as 19, but 24 is nearly certain; 2 letters before this numeral are unidentifiable
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 29; W: 18.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- i: 6 (Greek); ii: 15 (Coptic)
- Height of letters
- Description
- roughly rectangular slab; texts on two opposite sides of stone
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- looking on Coptic side - right lower corner damaged
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- Greek:
ⲙⲏϣⲏⲣ ⲕⲇ̣
Coptic:
ⲥⲟⲩ ϫⲟⲩⲧⲁϥⲧⲉ ⲙⲡⲉⲓⲉⲃⲟⲧ ⲛⲙϣⲓⲣ̣ ̣ ̣ ⲕ̄︤ⲇ̣̄
(Coptic corrected by Ochała and Van der Vliet) - Transcription
- Greek: "Mecheir 24" (l. 6)
Coptic: "day twenty-four of the month of Mecheir, 24" (ll. 9–10) - Months
- Greek: ⲙⲏϣⲏⲣ
Coptic: ⲙϣⲓⲣ̣ - Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Mina 92, pl. III.2
- Other editions
- I. Sak., pp. IV–V (Greek part)
- Other publications
- Till 1948, p. 358 (on date); Žabkar 1967, p. 16; Ochała 2011b, p. 221 (no. 7); CSCN, n. 25 on pp. 230–1
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