Text 519

Provenance
Amantogo
Region
Makuria
Findspot
not recorded
Excavation no.
 
Present location
Hermitage Museum, St Peresburg
Museum no.
 
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Greek
Content
fragment of epitaph of Taia
Date
29 August 938–29 August 939
Notes
near Dongola
year 656 from Diocletian was a leap year, ending on 29 August
Material
unidentified
Object dimensions
not recorded
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
7
Height of letters
 
Description
 
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
 
Date
29 August 938–29 August 939
Chronological systems
Era of the Incarnation
Era of the Martyrs
Era of Diocletian
Dating formulae
[---]ⲉⲓⲁ ⲭ̄︤ⲩ̄︥ Ͳ̣[ⲙ̄︤ⲍ︥̄ ---] ⲭ·ⲛⲉ· …
Transcription
"[in the year from the] Incarnation of Christ 9[31], [in the year from Diocletian] 655" (ll. 1–2)
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
Elanskaia 1977, fig. 10
Image
Image not available
Source
 
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
Elanskaia 1977, pp. 273–7, fig. 10
Other editions
 
Other publications
CSBE(2), p. 79; CSCN, table 11 on p. 72, p. 186, with n. 6, pp. 192–3
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