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Provenance
Faras (?)
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
unknown
Excavation no.
 
Present location
Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.
SNM 32141
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Greek
Content
epitaph of Iesousinkouda, eparch (?), domestikos of Pachoras, nauarchos of Nobades
Date
26 October 1102
Notes
I. Khartoum Greek 5 – 27 October
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 36.7; W: 18.5; Th: 8.2
Text dimensions
H: 25; W: 13.5
Object colour
grey
Text colour
traces of paint
Lines
20
Height of letters
0.6-1
Description
rectangular slab with recessed epigraphic field (last line located on bottom border)
Decorative elements
large Greek cross with 2 Latin crosses standing on its horizontal shoulder, one at each side; crosses placed in semicircular space, bordered by incised line
State of preservation
completely preserved
Date
26 October 1102
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
Era of the Martyrs
Dating formulae
ⲫⲁⲫⲓ : ⲕⲑ : ⲁ̇ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲱⲓⲑ :
Transcription
"(in the month of) Phaophi, (day) 29, (in the year) from the Martyrs 819" (ll. 13–14)
Months
ⲫⲁⲫⲓ
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
eparch (?) (ⲉⲝⲟⲩⲥⲓⲁ): ll. 7–8
domestikos of Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲇⲱⲙⲓⲥⲧⲓⲕⲟⲥ ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): ll. 8–10
nauarches of the Nobades (?) (ⲛⲁⲩⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲛⲟ̇): ll. 10–11
Toponyms & ethnonyms
(Church of) Gabriel (ⲅⲃⲗ): l. 7
Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): ll. 9–10
Nobades (?) (ⲛⲟ̇): l. 11
Phrim (= Ibrim) (ⲫⲣⲙ): l. 20
(Church of) Gabriel in Phrim (= Ibrim) (ⲅⲁⲃⲣⲓⲏⲗ ⲫⲣⲙ): l. 20
Source
I. Khartoum Greek, pl. V
Image
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Latest edition
I. Khartoum Greek 5, pl. 5
Other editions
Łajtar 1998b, pp. 73–80
Other publications
Łajtar – Van der Vliet 1998, pp. 49–50 (no. 10); CSBE(2), p. 86; Tsakos 2009b, pp. 202–3 (no. 7); CSCN, table 11 on p. 71; Richter 2013, p. 148
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