Text 32
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- north building, west wall, near north-west corner
- Excavation no.
- FA 134/63-4 (neg. no. Fa.62/3.0690)
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 24338
- Medium
- wall
- Technique
- incised (inscription)
- Type of text
- foundation inscription
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- foundation inscription of Bishop Paulos
- Date
- 28 August 707
- Notes
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 56.5; W: 108; Th: 19
- Text dimensions
- H: 49; W: 93
- Object colour
- grey
- Text colour
- Lines
- 21
- Height of letters
- 1.5-3
- Description
- roughly rectangular block; originally part of wall; epigraphic field framed by incised lines on left and right; traces of ruling
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- completely preserved
- Date
- 28 August 707
- Chronological systems
- regnal years
indiction (Egyptian)
Egyptian calendar
Era of Diocletian
- Dating formulae
- ϩⲣⲁⲓ̈ ϩ̄︤ⲛ︥ ⲧⲙ̄ⲛⲧⲉⲣⲟ ⲙ̄ⲡⲉⲛⲧⲁⲡⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ ⲥⲧⲉⲫⲁⲛⲟⲩ ⲙⲙⲟϥ ⲁⲩⲱ ⲡⲙⲁⲓⲭ̄︤ⲣ︦ⲥ̄︥ ⲛⲣⲣⲟ ⲙⲉⲣⲕⲟⲩⲣⲓⲟⲥ ϩ︤ⲛ︥ ⲧⲙⲉϩⲙ︦ⲛ︥ⲧⲟⲩⲉ ⲛ̄ⲣⲟⲙⲡⲉ ⲛ̄ⲧⲉϥⲙ︦ⲛ︥ⲧⲉⲣⲟ
ϩⲛ ⲑⲉⲕⲧⲏⲥ ⲓ̈ⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲟⲛⲟⲥ ϩⲛ ⲧⲙⲉϩϥⲧⲟⲩϣⲉϫⲟⲩⲧϣⲟⲙ̄︤ⲛ︥ⲧⲉ ⲛⲣⲟⲙⲡⲉ ⲙⲡⲉⲭⲣⲟⲛⲟⲥ ϫⲓⲛ ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏⲧⲓⲁⲛⲟⲥ
ⲙⲏⲛⲏ ⲉⲡⲁⲅⲟⲙⲉⲛ̄ⲋ ⲡⲉⲙⲧⲏⲥ - Transcription
- "In the reign of (...) king Merkourios, in the eleventh year of his reign" (ll. 2–4)
"in the sixth indiction, in the four hunderd twenty-third year of the era from Diocletian" (ll. 5–6)
"in the epagomenal month on the fifth (day)" (l. 21) - Months
- ⲉⲡⲁⲅⲟⲙⲉⲛ︦ⲋ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- king (ⲣⲣⲟ): l. 3
illustris (ⲡⲓⲗⲗⲟⲩⲥⲧⲣⲓⲟⲥ): ll. 4–5
great eparch (ⲡⲛⲟϭ ⲛⲉⲡⲁⲣⲭⲟⲥ): l. 5
abba (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): l. 9
prelate (ⲡⲣⲟⲉⲇⲣⲟⲥ): l. 9
bishop of the city of Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲡⲉⲡⲓⲥⳤ⸌ⲟ⸍ ⲛⲧⲡⲟⲗⲓⲥ ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): l. 9
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- the city of Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲧⲡⲟⲗⲓⲥ ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): l. 9
- Source
- neg. no. Fa.62/3.0690 (= I. Khartoum Copt. 1, pl. 1)
- Image
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- Source
- Jakobielski 1972, fig. 3b
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Copt. 1, pl. 1
- Other editions
- Jakobielski 1966a, pp. 103–108, fig. 1; I. Faras Copt., pp. 37–45, fig. 3b
- Other publications
- (selection) Michałowski 1964a, pp. 197–199; Michałowski 1965b, p. 186; Michałowski 1967, p. 73, pl. 14; Jakobielski 1969, p. 500, fig. 1; Vantini 1970, pp. 186–188; Orlandi 1974, pp. 267–268; Quecke 1974, p. 136; I. Faras Greek, pp. 20–23; Rostkowska 1982, pp. 208–209 (partial transcription and translation); Munro-Hay 1982/3, pp. 97–99; MacCoull – Worp 1990, p. 389; Łajtar 1992a, p. 122; Van der Vliet 1999b, pp. 84–97; Richter 2002, p. 178; CSBE(2), p. 73; Brakmann 2006, pp. 311–314; Tsakos 2009b, p. 201 (no. 1); CSCN, pp. 64, 110, 111–114, 116, 121, 210, 212; Werner 2013, p. 82; Hendrickx 2019, pp. 8 (translation), 10–13 (discussion); Łajtar 2022, p. 436, fig. on p. 432
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