Text 398
- Provenance
- Sakinya
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- not recorded
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Coptic Museum, Cairo
- Museum no.
- 6834
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of Petrosinta, daughter of Mishsheta
- Date
- 14 June 918 or 14 June 923
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 33; W: 29
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 17
- Height of letters
- Description
- oval plaque, narrower in upper part; edges slightly raised
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete apart from small fragment of lower margin, fortunately without damage to text
- Date
- 14 June 918 or 14 June 923
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
Era of the Saracens
Era of Diocletian
- Dating formulae
- ⲙⲡⲉⲓ̈ⲉⲱⲃⲱⲧ ⲡⲁⲱⲛⲉ ⲕ
ⲁⲡⲟ ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲓ̈ⲧ ⲭⲗⲑ
ⲥⲁⲣⲁⲅⲉⲓⲛⲟⲥ ⲧⲉ - Transcription
- "in the month (of) Payni, (day) 20" (ll. 8–9)
"(in the year) from Diocletian 639" (ll. 15–16)
"(in the year from) the Saracens 305" (ll. 16–17) - Months
- ⲡⲁⲱⲛⲉ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- I. Mina 320, pl. XVI.2
- Image
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- Source
- I. Sak. 221, pl. VIII.1
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. Mina 320, pl. XVI.2
- Other editions
- I. Sak. 221, pl. 8.1
- Other publications
- Macadam 1953, p. 47 (on date); Till 1948, p. 358 (on date); MacCoull – Worp 1990, p. 395; CSBE(2), p. 79; Ochała 2009, pp. 140–1; Tsakos 2010a, p. 683 (no. 1); CSCN, pp. 147–9
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