Text 489
- Provenance
- Dongola
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- not recorded
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
- Museum no.
- Acc. No. E.64.1903
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of Markos
- Date
- 19 December 811
- Notes
- year 528 followed a leap year, which is why the date is 19 December
- Material
- granite
- Object dimensions
- H: 18.9; W: 27.5; Th: 7.2
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- grey
- Text colour
- Lines
- 8
- Height of letters
- Description
- middle fragment of rectangular slab; on right and left sides incised lines framing epigraphic field
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- only middle part preserved; surface much worn and illegible in places
- Date
- 19 December 811
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
indiction
Era of Diocletian
- Dating formulae
- ⲙⲛⲓ ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲭ ⲕ︤ⲃ ⲁⲡⲟ ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲉⲧⲟ⸌ⲩ⸍ⲥ ⲫ︤ⲕ︦ⲏ︥ ⲓⲛ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲉ̄
- Transcription
- "in the month of Choiak, (day) 22, in the year from Diocletian 528, in the 5th indiction" (ll. 2-4)
- Months
- ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲭ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- I. Fitzwilliam, fig. on p. 173
- Image
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- Source
- I. Fitzwilliam, fig. on p. 173
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. Fitzwilliam 116, figs. on p. 173
- Other editions
- Burkitt 1903, pp. 586–587 (γ); I. Lefebvre 643; Łajtar 1997a, p. 125 (no. 10)
- Other publications
- Weissbrodt 1905/6, pp. 17–18 (nos. 11–13); Junker 1925b, passim; Monneret de Villard 1935–1957: 1, p. 247; Monneret de Villard 1937, pp. 58, 64; Heichelheim 1942, p. 16, (X, b, 3); Žabkar 1967, p. 17; CSBE(2), p. 76
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