Text 1843
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- cathedral, east part of south aisle, east wall; accompanying painting no. 51 (enthroned Christ)
- Excavation no.
- inv. no. 51 (painting)
- Present location
- National Museum, Warsaw
- Museum no.
- 234026
- Medium
- wall
- Technique
- painted (dipinto)
- Type of text
- literary: biblical
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- John 1:1–2, serving as legend to painting of enthroned Christ
- Date
- 975–1025
- Notes
- Material
- plaster
- Object dimensions
- Text dimensions
- H: 29; W: 30
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black, red
- Lines
- col. 1: 8; col. 2: 10
- Height of letters
- Description
- inscription painted on facing pages of open book resting on knees of Christ in two columns
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- incomplete; left and bottom part lost; ink obliterated
- Date
- 975–1025
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- National Museum, Warsaw: https://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/496339
- Image
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- Source
- Jakobielski 1974, fig. on p. 297
- Image
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- Latest edition
- Jakobielski et alii 2017, p. 293, figs. on pp. 292, 294 (no. 89)
- Other editions
- Altheim – Stiehl 1971, pp. 499–500; I. Faras Copt., pp. 132–134, fig. 40; Jakobielski 1974, p. 295 (no. 27) + fig.
- Other publications
- Michałowski 1966a, p. 17, pl. 10.1; Michałowski 1967, pp. 133–134, pl. 53; Michałowski 1974a, pp. 177–183 (no. 35), pls. on pp. 179, 182; Dobrzeniecki 1979, p. 70, fig. 2; Dobrzeniecki 1980, p. 266, figs. 1, 4; Catalogue Vienna 2002, pp. 83–85 (no. 16), fig. on p. 83; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, pp. 170–171 (with fig.); Łajtar 2015–2016, p. 134 (no. 81); CIEN 6, no. 63 (reading of col. 1, ll. 5–8); Łajtar 2020b, Appendix no. F4 (cf. p. 188)
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