Text 485
- Provenance
- Kalabsha
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- not recorded
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- British Museum, London
- Museum no.
- EA823
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of Mena
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 18; W:
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 16 (reconstructed in upper and lower parts)
- Height of letters
- Description
- rectangular slab
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- upper part lacking; surface destroyed in lower and upper part
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
indiction
- Dating formulae
- ⲙⲫⲁⲙⲉⲛⲱⲑ ⲅ ⲓ̈ⲛ̄︤ⲇ︥ ⲓ̈ⲇ :
- Transcription
- "in the month of Phamenoth, (day) 3, in the 14th indiction" (ll. 8–9)
- Months
- ⲫⲁⲙⲉⲛⲱⲑ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 39
- Other editions
- Young 1821, p. 157 (no. 6), pl. X; CIG 4 9116; Revillout 1885, p. 30 (no. 42); O. Brit. Mus. Copt. 1, p. 13 (no. 5), pl. XI (no. 823); I. Lefebvre 626; SB 5 8723
- Other publications
- le Blant 1869, p. 81; Weissbrodt 1905/6, p. 18 (no. 17); Tibiletti Bruno 1963, passim; Žabkar 1967, p. 16
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