Text 512
- Provenance
- Arminna
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- in debris on bench surrounding small church
- Excavation no.
- 119
- Present location
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Museum no.
- JdE 89739
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek/Old Nubian
- Content
- epitaph of Mariio
- Date
- 1 June 1032
- Notes
- 'God of the spirits' type
ll. 21–2 in Old Nubian; Oates 1963 – 10 June; date corrected by Grumel 1965; Oates read Payni 17 - in fact 7 on stone
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 45; W: 35; Th: 6.5-7
- Text dimensions
- H: 35; W: 25
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 23
- Height of letters
- c. 1
- Description
- roughly rectangular slab with slightly rounded bottom edge; epigraphic field framed by raised border
- Decorative elements
- margins decorate wit irregular X-pattern
- State of preservation
- complete; margins somewhat worn
- Date
- 1 June 1032
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
Era of the Martyrs
- Dating formulae
- ⲡⲁⲏⲛⲏ ·ⲍ̇ ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣⲧⲏⲣⲟⲛⲁ ⲯⲙ︦ⲏ
(corrected by Ochała) - Transcription
- "Payni 7, (in the year) from the Martyrs 748" (ll. 22–3)
- Months
- ⲡⲁⲏⲛⲏ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
Loading...
- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- Trigger 1967, pp 19–20 (no. 41), 85, pl. 8d + ; Łajtar – Ochała 2023, pp. 73–76 (no. 5), fig. 5 (ll 21–23)
- Other editions
- Oates 1963, passim (p. 162, no. 3), pl. 27
- Other publications
- Grumel 1965, pp. 87–88 (no. 6); Simpson 1967, pp. 181–182, pl. 6; Žabkar 1967, p. 16; Trigger 1970, p. 377, il. 347; Hägg 1982, pp. 104–105; Bagnall – Worp 1986, p. 354; Łajtar 1996c, p. 105 (no. 5); CSBE(2), p. 84; CSCN, pp. 68–70, table 11 on p. 72
Loading...