Text 49

Provenance
Sai
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
unknown, perhaps cathedral
Excavation no.
 
Present location
Ali Dinar Museum, el-Fashir
Museum no.
SNM 15 (old)
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Coptic
Content
epitaph of Iesou, bishop of Sai
Date
15 May 1054
Notes
weekday correct
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 34; W: 27
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
24
Height of letters
 
Description
rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by incised line on upper, left and right sides
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
complete; last line partly worn away
Date
15 May 1054
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
day of the week
Era of Diocletian
Dating formulae
ⲛⲥⲟⲩ ϫⲟⲩⲱⲧ ⲙⲡⲉⲃⲟⲧ ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲛⲓ ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲛ̇ⲧⲕⲩⲣⲓⲁⲕⲏ ⲛ̇ⲟⲩⲛⲟⲩ ⲇⲉ ⲛ̇ϫⲡⲥⲟ
ⲁⲡ [ⲇ]ⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲉⲧⲏ ⲯ̄︤ⲟ︦
Transcription
"on day twenty of the month of Pachon, the day of Sunday, at the sixth hour" (ll. 12–14)
"years from Diocletian 770" (ll. 22–23)
Months
ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲛⲓ
Weakdays
ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲛ̇ⲧⲕⲩⲣⲓⲁⲕⲏ
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
abba (ⲁ︦ⲃ︦): l. 10
bishop of Sai (ⲡⲉⲡⲓⲥⲕⲟⲡⲟⲥ ⲍⲁⲏ): ll. 10–11
monk of (monastery of) Ittide (ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲁⲭⲟⲥ ⲛⲉⲓⲧⲧⲇⲏ): l. 11
Toponyms & ethnonyms
Sai (ⲍⲁⲏ): l. 11
(monastery of) Ittide (ⲉⲓⲧⲧⲇⲏ): l. 11
Source
I. Khartoum Copt., pl. XX
Image
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Source
 
Image
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Latest edition
I. Khartoum Copt. 27, pl. 20
Other editions
Steindorff 1907–1908, pp. 71–74; Kraus 1930, pp. 125–127; SB Kopt. 1 429
Other publications
Budge 1907, pp. 464–466, fig. on p. 465; DACL 2/3, col. 2882; Kaufmann 1917, pp. 252–253, fig. 175; Junker 1925b, passim; Monneret de Villard 1935–1957: 1, p. 238; MacCoull – Worp 1990, p. 399; Łajtar 2001b, p. 64; Hinkel – Abdelrahman Ali Mohamed 2002, pp. 2–3; Łajtar 2006a, p. 93; CSBE(2), p. 81, n. 89, p. 316; Tsakos 2009b, p. 201; CSCN, table 47 on p. 337; Tsakos 2011–2012, p. 299 (no. 2); Richter 2013, p. 151; Łajtar 2014b, n. 24 on p. 226
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