Text 2042

Provenance
Faras
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
cathedral, north vestibule, west wall; accompanying painting no. 37 (Maiestas Crucis); to the right of DBMNT 2794
Excavation no.
inv. no. 37 (painting)
Present location
National Museum, Warsaw
Museum no.
234018
Medium
wall
Technique
painted (dipinto)
Type of text
legend
Language
Greek
Content
names of Jesus, cross, and Four Living Creatures (Meliton, Agrammatap, Paramura, and Peioourouthion) serving as legend to painting of Maiestas Crucis
Date
1000–1025
Notes
 
Material
plaster
Object dimensions
 
Text dimensions
H: ?; W: 18 + 10 + 14 + 11 + 18
Object colour
 
Text colour
black
Lines
4
Height of letters
 
Description
inscription painted above and on both sides of upper arm of cross, as well as next to the Four Living Creatures
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
complete
Date
1000–1025
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/496332
Image
Image not available
Source
Jakobielski 1974, figs on p. 296
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
Jakobielski et alii 2017, p. 266, figs. on pp. 265–267 (no. 76)
Other editions
Michałowski 1967, pp. 161–162, pl. 89; Jakobielski 1974, p. 294 (no. 23) + figs.
Other publications
Michałowski 1966a, pl. 15.2; Van Moorsel 1968, pp. 304–305 (no. 2); Michałowski 1974a, pp. 234–240 (no. 54), figs. on pp. 236–239; Catalogue Vienna 2002, pp. 89–91 (no. 22), fig. on p. 90; Vantini 2009, pl. between pp. 128–129; Tsakos 2014a, pp. 255–259; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, pp. 82–83, figs. on pp. 73 and 83
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