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- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- cathedral, western group of bishops’ tombs, immured in the western façade of the cathedral, above the tomb
- Excavation no.
- F 389/62-63 (neg. nos. Fa.61/2.0470, Fa.61/2.0471, Fa.61/2.0485, Fa.61/2.0647, Fa.61/2.0647a, Fa.62/3.0821)
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 23378
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of Aaron, metropolitan bishop of Pachoras
- Date
- 12 December 972
- Notes
- Tsakos 2009b, p. 202: 'SNM 23378 is the registration number of I. Khartoum Copt. 2' - meaning I. Khartoum Copt. 3
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 45; W: 39.5; Th: 6
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 25
- Height of letters
- 1-1.5
- Description
- rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed from top and sides by raised border in form of aedicula
- Decorative elements
- aedicula-type decoration, with 2 columns with lotus capitals crowned with conch; rim of conch decorated with XOXOX-shaped motif; cruces gemmatae on each side of conch
- State of preservation
- complete
- Date
- 12 December 972
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
Era of Diocletian
- Dating formulae
- ⲙ̇ⲡⲉⲃⲟⲧ ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕ : ⲓ︦ⲋ︥̄ ⲁ̇ⲡⲟ ⲇⲓⲟ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲭ̄︤ⲡ︦ⲑ̄︥ :
- Transcription
- "in the month of Choiak, (day) 16, (in the year) from Diocletian 689" (l. 10)
- Months
- ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- abba (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): l. 8
bishop of metropolis of Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲡⲉⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲙ̇ⲙⲏⲧⲣⲟⲡⲟⲗⲓⲥ ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): l. 9
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): l. 9
- Source
- neg. no. Fa.61/2.0647 (= I. Faras Copt., fig. 33)
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Copt. 3, pl. 3
- Other editions
- Jakobielski 1965, pp. 168–171 (no. 5), fig. 89; I. Faras Copt., pp. 120–123, fig. 33; Kosack 1974, p. 329 (no. 105); Myszor – Szczudłowska 1974, p. 42, reprinted: Dembska – Myszor 1998, pp. 71–72
- Other publications
- (selection) Michałowski 1962c, p. 120; Michałowski 1963b, p. 244, pl. 58a Michałowski 1964b, p. 86, fig. 40; Michałowski 1965a, pp. 72–76 (context), fig. 44; Michałowski 1966a, pl. 8; Altheim – Stiehl 1971, p. 502, n. 11; I. Faras. Greek, p. 55; Michałowski 1974b, p. 163, fig. 80; Dzierżykray-Rogalski 1985, pp. 25–32; MacCoull – Worp 1990, p. 397; CSBE(2), p. 80; Richter 2013, p. 151; Łajtar 2020c, pp. 263–264, 270–271
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