Text 393

Provenance
Sakinya
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
not recorded
Excavation no.
 
Present location
Coptic Museum, Cairo
Museum no.
6839
Medium
stela
Technique
incised before firing
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Coptic
Content
epitaph of Taurosa (?), son of Petiallam
Date
30 June 906 or 30 June 907
Notes
 
Material
terracotta
Object dimensions
H: 48.5; W: 32
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
18
Height of letters
 
Description
rectangular plaque with rounded corners; slightly raised edges
Decorative elements
decorated with 2 rows of 4 "David stars" each above and below text
State of preservation
complete
Date
30 June 906 or 30 June 907
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
Era of the Saracens
Era of Diocletian
Dating formulae
ⲛⲥⲟⲩ ⲋ ⲙⲡⲉⲃⲟⲧ ⲉⲡⲏⲫ
ⲁⲡⲟ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲭⲕⲅ ⲁⲡⲟⲩ ⲥⲁⲣⲁⳤ ⲥϥⲅ
Transcription
"on day 6 of the month (of) Epeiph" (ll. 7–8)
"(in the year) from Diocletian 623, (in the year) from the Saracens 293" (ll. 16–17)
Months
ⲉⲡⲏⲫ
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
I. Mina 315, pl. XV.1
Image
Image not available
Source
I. Sak. 216, pl. VIII.2
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
I. Mina 315, pl. XV.1
Other editions
I. Sak. 216, pl. VIII.2
Other publications
Till 1948, pp. 358 (on name); Grumel 1965, pp. 89–90 (no. 9); MacCoull – Worp 1990, p. 395; CSBE(2), p. 78, n. 69; Ochała 2009, pp. 138–40; Tsakos 2010a, p. 683 (no. 1); CSCN, pp. 144, 145–7
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