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- Provenance
- el-Donga
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- area VI, re-used in crossing of two walls
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid
- Museum no.
- 1980/103/1
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of man Kosma
- Date
- 21 May 1093
- Notes
- North Argin, 11 km N of Wadi Halfa
weekday correct
one of the latest attestations of the Diocletian Era
- Material
- unidentified
- Object dimensions
- H: 46; W: 28; Th: c. 8
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 27
- Height of letters
- Description
- oval slab; epigraphic field framed by high raised border; line 1 (with date from Diocletian) written on upper margin; on left border cross and pentagram; on right border one line
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete; somewhat worn in middle part but still legible
- Date
- 21 May 1093
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
day of the week
Era of Diocletian
- Dating formulae
- ⲁⲡⲟ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲱ̄︤ⲑ̄︥
ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲛ ⲕⲋ ⲏⲙⲉⲣⲁ · ⲥⲁⲃⲃⲁⲧⲱⲛ - Transcription
- "(in the year) from Diocletian 809" (l. 1)
"on day 26 of (the month of) Pachon, Saturday" (ll. 25–6) - Months
- ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲛ
- Weakdays
- ⲥⲁⲃⲃⲁⲧⲱⲛ
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- sene of Talmis (= Kalabsha) (?) (ⲥⲉⲛⲏ ⲧⲁⲗⲙⲏⲛ): ll. 23–4
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Talmis (= Kalabsha) (?) (ⲧⲁⲗⲙⲏⲛ): l. 24
- Source
- Torallas Tovar – Worp 2002, pl. after p. 170
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- Torallas Tovar – Worp 2002, pp. 169–74, pl. after p. 170
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Almagro et alii 1965, pp. 94–5, pl. 21b, c; Teixidor – Garcia Guinea – van den Eynde Ceruti 1986–88, p. 281; Catalogue Barcelona 2003, p. 140 (no. 41); CSBE(2), p. 81, n. 92, p. 316; CSCN, table 47 on p. 337
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