Text 269
- Provenance
- Sakinya
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- not recorded
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Coptic Museum, Cairo
- Museum no.
- 6938 (old Egyptian Museum no. 63439)
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of woman Pesanthia
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 39; W: 24
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 8
- Height of letters
- Description
- round-topped slab, slightly narrowing towards bottom; epigraphic field framed by raised border in form of aedicula
- Decorative elements
- elaborate aedicula-type decoration: 2 columns decorated with plaitwork; capitals with volutes supporting lintel decorated with 2 rhombus with crosses separated by vertical elements; decorative conch resting upon lintel
- State of preservation
- complete
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲡⲁⲣⲙⲟⲩⲧⲉ ⲅ
- Transcription
- "Pharmouthi 3" (l. 8)
- Months
- ⲡⲁⲣⲙⲟⲩⲧⲉ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- Monneret de Villard 1933, pl. II, 7
- Image
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- Source
- Kamel – Girgis 1987, pl. 31
- Image
-
- Latest edition
- SB Kopt. 2 1136
- Other editions
- I. Sak. 89, pl. 2.7; I. Mina 189; Brunsch 1991, pp. 104–5 (no. 102), pl. 20 (no. 102)
- Other publications
- Kamel – Girgis 1987, p. 56 (no. 102), pls. XLV (photo) & 31 (tracing)
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