Text 4398
- Provenance
- Kalabsha (probably)
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- unknown
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Kingston Lacy Estate, Dorset
- Museum no.
- 1257839
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised & painted
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of Georgios
- Date
- circa 600–699
- Notes
- 'here lies' type
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 21; W: 14.5; Th: 8
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- grey
- Text colour
- red
- Lines
- 11
- Height of letters
- not recorded
- Description
- rectangular sandstone stela
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete apart from marginal chips and partly broken off lower right corner
- Date
- circa 600–699
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
indiction
- Dating formulae
- ⲙⲉⲛⲏ ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲩⲣⲉ ⲍ ⲉⲛⲇⳤ ⲓ
- Transcription
- "in the month of Mesore, (day) 7, in the 10th indiction" (ll. 4–5)
- Months
- ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲩⲣⲉ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- van der Vliet – Worp 2017, pp. 251–4, no. 5 (photo available at <http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1257839>)
- Other editions
- Other publications
- CIEN 6, no. 56
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