Text 31
- Provenance
- Soba
- Region
- Alwa
- Findspot
- building D, room m18
- Excavation no.
- Soba East 1985/86
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 31251
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of King Dauid
- Date
- 800–999
- Notes
- 'God of the spirits' type
- Material
- marble
- Object dimensions
- Text dimensions
- H: 29; W: 38
- Object colour
- white, covered with grey-yellow patina
- Text colour
- Lines
- 21
- Height of letters
- 0.7-1
- Description
- slab of irregular shape, originally probably rectangular
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- edges chipped out; surface worn out very much; greatly rubbed in central part
- Date
- 800–999
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
day of the week
king's occurrence
- Dating formulae
- ⲉⲛ ⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲁⲑⲩⲣ : ⲃ̄ : ⲏ̇ⲙⲉⲣⲁ ⲡⲉⲙⲡⲧⲏ ⲟⲩⲥⲏⲥ :
- Transcription
- "in the month of Athyr, (day) 2, when it is the fifth day (= Thursday)" (ll. 19–20)
- Months
- ⲁⲑⲩⲣ
- Weakdays
- ⲏ̇ⲙⲉⲣⲁ ⲡⲉⲙⲡⲧⲏ
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- king (ⲃ︦ⲗ︦ⲥ︦): l. 5
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- I. Khartoum Greek, pl. LXXVI
- Image
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- Source
- Jakobielski 1991, fig. 153
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Greek 79, pl. 76
- Other editions
- Jakobielski 1991, pp. 274–6, fig. 153, pl. 47
- Other publications
- Łajtar 1996c, p. 108 (no. 36); Hägg 1998, p. 114; Welsby 2002, pp. 62, 240, fig. 97; Catalogue London 2004, p. 230 (no. 197); CSBE(2), p. 317; Brakmann 2006, pp. 300, 304; Tsakos 2009b, p. 202 (no. 4); Łajtar 2014b, n. 1 on p. 221
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