Text 1840

Provenance
Faras
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
cathedral, south aisle; accompanying painting no. 53 (St Onnophrios)
Excavation no.
inv. no. 53 (painting); neg. nos. Fa.63/4.1306, Fa.63/4.1308, Fa.63/4.1309
Present location
Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.
SNM 24316
Medium
wall
Technique
painted (dipinto)
Type of text
legend
Language
Greek/Coptic
Content
name of St Onnophrios, anchorite, serving as legend to his representation
Date
1000–1025
Notes
 
Material
plaster
Object dimensions
 
Text dimensions
not recorded
Object colour
 
Text colour
black
Lines
1 vertical + 2 horizontal
Height of letters
 
Description
inscription painted above painting of St Onnophrios
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
incomplete; bottom part of vertical line lost
Date
1000–1025
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
Michałowski 1967, pl. 75
Image
Image not available
Source
 
Image
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Latest edition
Jakobielski et alii 2017, p. 302, figs. on pp. 301–2 (no. 91)
Other editions
Michałowski 1967, pp. 152–3, pl. 75; I. Faras. Copt., p. 130, fig. 38; I. Faras Greek 93, fig. 83
Other publications
Jakobielski 1975a, p. 331; Łukaszewicz 1990, pp. 549–56, fig. 3; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, p. 117, fig. 22
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