Text 46

Provenance
Meinarti
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
Classic Christian cemetery, tomb 13, level 9
Excavation no.
6-K-3/832
Present location
Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.
SNM 18098
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Greek/Coptic
Content
epitaph of woman Iesousiko
Date
9 January 1046
Notes
ll. 2 and 19 in Greek, in ll. 8-9 Old Nubian fragment
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 48.5; W: 32; Th: 7
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
light-brown
Text colour
 
Lines
19
Height of letters
1-1.5
Description
rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by raised border in form of aedicula
Decorative elements
aedicula-type decoration with columns on both sides decorated with capitals; on top conch on lintel within arch; traces of red painted decoration on columns, arch and around the conch
State of preservation
complete
Date
9 January 1046
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
Era of Diocletian
Dating formulae
ⲧⲏⲃⲏ ⲙⲛⲧⲁϥⲧⲉ ⲛϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲁ̇ⲡⲟ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲯⲝ︦ⲃ̄︥
Transcription
"Tybi fourteen, days from Diocletian 762" (ll. 9–10)
Months
ⲧⲏⲃⲏ
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
(Church of) Philotheos the Guide (?) (ⲫⲓⲗⲟⲑⲉⲥⲉ︤ⲅⲟ ⸌ⲡ⸍ⲙⲟⲩⲇⲟⲩⲉ): ll. 8–9
Source
photo by W. Godlewski
Image
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Source
 
Image
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Latest edition
I. Khartoum Copt. 19, pl. 13
Other editions
 
Other publications
Adams 1965, p. 172; Łajtar – Van der Vliet 1998, pp. 36–43, 52 (no. 15); Adams 2000b, fig. 16; Adams 2001, pp. 98–9, pl. 35a; Adams 2003, pp. 51, 70, pls. 13a, 17a; CSBE(2), p. 81; Tsakos 2011b, p. 168
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