Text 477
- Provenance
- Tafa
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- church in south temple, on one side of the doorway leading from pronaos of the temple (naos of the church) to temple sanctuary; below DBMNT 1505, probably below inscription (a)
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- not preserved
- Museum no.
- Medium
- wall
- Technique
- painted (dipinto)
- Type of text
- commemorative inscription
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- Inscription commemorating the consecration of the church at the temple of Tafa after its renovation; kings Iarolt and Thomas mentioned
- Date
- probably 629–630
- Notes
- Material
- plaster
- Object dimensions
- Text dimensions
- not recorded
- Object colour
- Text colour
- red
- Lines
- 10
- Height of letters
- not recorded
- Description
- ten lines of inscription painted in red
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- nearly complete at moment of discovery
- Date
- probably 629–630
- Chronological systems
- months
Egyptian calendar
indiction
regnal years
- Dating formulae
- l. 3: ⲉⲡⲓ ⲧⲏⲥ ⲡⲁⲣⲉⲗⲑⲟⲩⲥⲏⲥ ⲉⲛⲛⲁⲧⲏⲥ ⲓⲛⲇ⳽ ⲧⲏ ⲛⲉⲟⲙⲉⲛⲓⲁ ⲧⲟⲩ ⲙⲏⲛⲟⲥ ̣[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣]
ll. 6–7: [ⲉⲛ] ⲙⲏⲛ̣ⲓ ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲣⲏ ⲡⲉⲛⲧⲉⲕⲁⲓⲇⲉⲕⲁⲧⲏ ⲧⲏⲥ ⲧ[ⲣⲓ]ⲧⲏⲥ ⲓⲛⲇ⳽
l. 9: ̣ ̣ ⲃⲁⲥⲓⲗⲉⲓⲁⲥ ⲧⲟⲩ ⲑⲉⲓⲟⲧⲁⲧⲟⲩ ⲕⲁⲓ ⲉⲩⲥⲉⲃⲉⲥⲧ̣ⲁ̣ ⲑⲱⲙⲁ ⲇⲉⲥⲡ⳽ ⲡⲁⲥ⳽ ⲁⲓⲑⲓⲟⲡ⳽ ⲉⲧⲟⲩⲥ ⲉⲕⲧⲟⲩ - Transcription
- “in the past ninth indiction, on the first day of the month of [---]” (l. 3)
“in the month of Mesore (day) fifteen in the third indiction” (ll. 6–7)
“in the kingship of the most holy and most pious Thomas, master of entire Aethiopia, in the sixth year” (l. 9) - Months
- ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲣⲏ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- lord of entire Aethiopia (= king) (ⲇⲉⲥⲡ⳽ ⲡⲁⲥ⳽ ⲁⲓⲑⲓⲟⲡ⳽): l. 9
bishop of the land of Nobadia ([ⲉⲡⲓⲥⲕ ⲧⲏⲥ] ⲛⲟⲃⲁⲇⲓⲁⲥ ⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): l. 10
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Aethiopia (ⲁⲓⲑⲓⲟⲡ⳽): l. 9
Nobadia ([ⲧⲏⲥ] ⲛⲟⲃⲁⲇⲓⲁⲥ ⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): l. 10
- Latest edition
- Łajtar – Ochała – Deptuła forthcoming (a), no. 2 (after Bankes)
- Other editions
- CIG 4 8890 (after Gau); I. Lefebvre 615 (after CIG)
- Other publications
- Gau 1822, pl. 14.3
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