Text 4402

Provenance
Dongola
Region
Makuria
Findspot
monastery on kom H, building 4, room W.1, upper layers
Excavation no.
Hdd.18.322
Present location
Dongola, storeroom of the Polish mission
Museum no.
 
Medium
stela
Technique
incised & painted
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Coptic
Content
epitaph of Michaelinkouda, monk
Date
4 April 758
Notes
 
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 30; W: 19; Th: 6.5
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
reddish grey
Text colour
traces of paint in letters
Lines
15
Height of letters
 
Description
rectangular slab with slightly rounded side edges; epigraphic field framed by incised line, double on the top; script largel in upper part, smaller and tighter in the lower one
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
almost complete, only lower left corner broken off; minor damage to the surface, but not affecting the reading
Date
4 April 758
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
indiction
Era of Diocletian
Dating formulae
ϩⲛ̄ ⲥⲟⲩ ⲯⲓⲥ ⲙⲡⲉⲃⲟⲧ ⲡⲁⲣⲙⲟⲩⲧⲉ ⲓⲛⲇⲓ ⲓ︤ⲁ ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲓ ⲩ̄ⲟ̄ⲇ
Transcription
"on the ninth of the month of Parmoute, in the 11th indiction, (in the
year from) Diocletian 474" (ll. 11–13)
Months
ⲡⲁⲣⲙⲟⲩⲧⲉ
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
monk (ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲁⲭ̄⳽): l. 10
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
van der Vliet 2018, fig. 1
Image
Image not available
Source
 
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
van der Vliet 2018a, no. 1a (pp. 322–5), fig. 1
Other editions
 
Other publications
CIEN 7, no. 42
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