DBMNT

Provenance: Komangana
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cemetery 178, reused for closing doorway in grave 18, inscribed surface turned inwards and upside down; found together with DBMNT 514
Excavation no.: 178/18:1
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.: SNM 24618

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek/Old Nubian
Content: epitaph of Marturophoros, bishop, son of Joassi, son of Marianya
Date: 17 February 1159
Notes: near Debeira
'God of the spirits' type
I. Khartoum Greek 6 – 18 February; AM 875 was a leap year
last sentence in Old Nubian

Description: trapezoidal slab, epigraphic field surrounded on 3 sides (apart from bottom) by irregular raised border; line 1 written on border
Decorative elements
State of preservation: completely preserved

Dating formulae: ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲱ̇ⲟ̇ⲉ̇ ⟦ ̣ ̣ ⟧ ⲗⲟ ⲙⲉⲭⲉⲓⲣⲁ ⲕ̄ⲅ̄ ⲗⲟ
Transcription: "(in the year) from the Martyrs 875, (in the month of) Mecheir, (day) 23" (l. 22)
Months: ⲙⲉⲭⲉⲓⲣ-ⲁ
Weakdays
Feasts

Latest edition: I. Khartoum Greek 6, pl. 6
Other editions: Holthoer – Salonen – Ziliacus 1964, pp. 19–22, fig. 2; Hägg 1981, pp. 59–62, drawing on p. 60, pls. 47, 106

Other publications: Säve-Söderbergh 1964, pp. 37–39, fig. 9a; Leclant 1964, p. 372; Michałowski 1967, p. 96; Žabkar 1967, p. 16; Krause 1970, p. 84 = Krause, in: Altheim – Stiehl 1971, p. 529; Säve-Söderbergh 1970, pp. 238–239; Vantini 1970, pp. 19–20, 236–237; Säve-Söderbergh – Englund – Nordström 1981, p. 135; Säve-Söderbergh 1981, p. 50; Hägg 1982, pp. 104–105; Łajtar 1994a, pp. 203–204; Browne 1996a, pp. 187–188; Łajtar 1996c, p. 106 (no. 19); CSBE(2), p. 86, n. 128; CSCN, table 11 on p. 71; Ruffini 2014a, p. 962

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