Text 4410
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- cathedral, north vestibule, east wall; accompanying painting no. 36 (Nativity)
- Excavation no.
- inv. no. 36 (painting)
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 24312
- Medium
- wall
- Technique
- painted (dipinto)
- Type of text
- legend
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- legend to painted representation of Nativity, including description of ‘the grotto’, ‘the manger’, ‘the shepherds’, and St Joseph.
- Date
- 700–799
- Notes
- Material
- plaster
- Object dimensions
- H: 100; W: 173
- Text dimensions
- not recorded
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 1: 1; 2: 1; 3: 1; 4: 2
- Height of letters
- not recorded
- Description
- four inscription painted inn black ink in differen places of the painting: (1) on the manger; (2) to the right of the manger; (3) above the shephard’s head; (4) below St Joseph
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- (1)–(3) complete; (4) fragmentary
- Date
- 700–799
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- Jakobielski 2017 at alii, fig. on p. 129
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- Jakobielski 2017 at alii, p. 129, figs. on pp. 128–129 (no. 10)
- Other editions
- Other publications
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