Text 517
- Provenance
- Dendur
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- temple, left jamb of south entrance to pronaos
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Museum no.
- Medium
- wall
- Technique
- incised & painted (inscription)
- Type of text
- foundation inscription
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- foundation inscription of church in temple of Dendur by Abraham, priest; mentioning king Irpanome
- Date
- circa 536–569
- Notes
- Material
- stone
- Object dimensions
- H: 48; W: 68
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- red
- Lines
- 14
- Height of letters
- Description
- inscription incised on stone block
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete
- Date
- circa 536–569
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
king's occurrence
- Dating formulae
- ⲥⲟⲩ ϫⲟⲩⲱⲧⲥⲁϣϥⲉ ⲛ̄ⲧⲱⲃⲉ ⲕ︤ⲍ̄
- Transcription
- "day twenty-seven of (the month of) Tybi, 27" (ll. 9)
- Months
- ⲧⲱⲃⲉ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- king (ⲡⲣⲣⲟ): l. 2
exarch of Talmis (= Kalabsha) (ⲡⲉⲝⲁⲣⲭⲋ ⲛ̄ⲧⲁⲗⲙⲉⲱⲥ): ll. 3-4
bishop of Philae (ⲡⲉⲡⲓⲥⲕⲋ ⲙ̄ⲡⲓⲗⲁⲕ): l. 5
priest (ⲡⲣⲉⲥⲃⲩⲧⲉⲣⲟⲥ): l. 6
eunuch (ⲡⲉⲥⲓⲟⲩⲣ): l. 10
stepharis (ⲥⲧⲉⲫⲁⲣⲓⲥ): l. 11
domestikos (ⲥⲁⲙⲁⲧⲁ): l. 11
courier (ⲃⲉⲣⲓⲧⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ): l. 12
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Talmis (= Kalabsha) (ⲧⲁⲗⲙⲉⲱⲥ): l. 4
Philae (ⲡⲓⲗⲁⲕ): l. 5
- Source
- Ochała 2011
- Image
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- Source
- Blackman 1911, pl. CIV, fig. 2
- Image
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- Latest edition
- Richter 2002, pp. 164–172
- Other editions
- Revillout 1874, pp. 373–382; Blackman 1911, pp. 36–37, pl. 104, fig. 2; Kraus 1930, pp. 111–114; FHN 3, pp. 1194–1196 (no. 330)
- Other publications
- Lepsius 1849–1859: 5 (text), p. 49; 6 (plates), 12, pl. 103, 39; Krall 1898, pp. 19–20, n. 6 (transcription); Maspero (J.) 1909, pp. 305–311; Monneret de Villard 1935–1957: 1, p. 45, fig. 34; 4, pl. 133; Donadoni 1959, p. 462; Vantini 1970, p. 53; Aldred 1978, p. 52, fig. 36; Roquet 1978b, p. 536; Demicheli 1978, pp. 195–198; Munro-Hay 1982/3, pp. 94–95; Welsby 2002, p. 37, fig. 12; van der Vliet 2005, p. 222; Brakmann 2006, p. 310; Dijkstra 2008, pp. 300–302 (translation and commentary); Ochała 2011b, pp. 217–224; CSCN, n. 8 on p. 102; Werner 2013, pp. 54–55 with n. 34 (translation) & 36; Dijkstra 2013, pp. 117–118 (translation and commentary); Ochała 2016a, p. 1270 with n. 15
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