Text 515

Provenance
Komangana
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
cemetery 178; reused to block entrance to tomb 8, inscribed surface turned inwards and upside down
Excavation no.
178/8:8
Present location
Uppsala
Museum no.
 
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Greek/Coptic
Content
epitaph of Staurophoros, meizon, nauarches of Nobades, naukrates of the Seven Lands
Date
4 December 1069
Notes
near Debeira
weekday correct
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 44; W: 24; Th: 17
Text dimensions
H: 34; W: 19
Object colour
reddish-brown
Text colour
 
Lines
32
Height of letters
0.9
Description
roughly rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by raised border in form of aedicula, line 1 written on "lintel"
Decorative elements
aedicula-type decoration: 2 columns with undecorated capitals supporting lintel upon which resting conch
State of preservation
complete, left upper corner broken off (?)
Date
4 December 1069
Chronological systems
day of the week
Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar
Dating formulae
ⲧⲏ ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲥⲕⲉⲩⲏ ⲏⲙⲉⲣⲁ · ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕ · ⲏ̄ · ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣⲧ · ⲯⲡ̄ⲋ
Transcription
"on the Preparation Day (= Friday), on day 8 of Choiak, (in the year) from the Martyrs 786" (ll. 28–30)
Months
ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕ
Weakdays
ⲧⲏ ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲥⲕⲉⲩⲏ
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
meizoteros (ⲙⲉⲓⲍ): l. 8
nauarches of the Nobades (ⲛⲁⲩⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲛⲟ⸌ⲃ⸍): l. 8
nau( ) of the Seven Lands (ⲛⲁⲩ ⲉⲡⲧⲁ ⲭⲱⲣⲁⲓ): l. 8
Toponyms & ethnonyms
Nobades (ⲛⲟ⸌ⲃ⸍): l. 8
Seven Lands (ⲉⲡⲧⲁ ⲭⲱⲣⲁⲓ): l. 8
(Church of) Seueros in the town (ⲥⲉⲩⲏⲣⲟⲥ ⲇⲡ︥ⲡⲉⲇⲱ): ll. 24–5
Source
Hägg 1982, pl. 105
Image
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Source
Hägg 1982, fig. on p. 57
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
Hägg 1981, pp. 55–59, fig. on p. 57, pl. 105
Other editions
Holthoer – Salonen – Ziliacus 1964, pp. 15–19, figs. 1, 7
Other publications
Säve-Söderbergh 1964, pp. 37–39, fig. 9b; Žabkar 1967, p. 16; Säve-Söderbergh 1970, p. 238; Säve-Söderbergh – Englund – Nordström 1981, p. 134; Säve-Söderbergh 1981, p. 50; Hägg 1990, pp. 161, 162; Łajtar 1996c, p. 106 (no. 18); Łajtar – Van der Vliet 1998, p. 50 (no. 11); CSBE(2), p. 85, n. 121, p. 316; CSCN, table 47 on p. 337; Berkes 2017, pp. 117–118, table on p. 119
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