Text 530

Provenance
Biga
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
cemetery 5, tomb 8, in rubbish at west end
Excavation no.
 
Present location
unknown
Museum no.
 
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Greek
Content
epitaph of abba Isak, anchorite
Date
550–799
Notes
photographed with a few Ginari stelae in I. Firth; already Reisner correctly as from Biga
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
not recorded
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
10
Height of letters
 
Description
rectangular slab
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
complete
Date
550–799
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
indiction
Dating formulae
ⲉⲛ ⲧⲱ ⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲁⲑⲩⲣ ⲉ̄ ⲧⲏⲥ ⲍ̄ ⲓⲛⲇ/
Transcription
"in the month of Athyr, (day) 5, in the 7th indiction" (ll. 6–7)
Months
ⲁⲑⲩⲣ
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
abba (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): l. 7
anchorite (ⲁⲛⲭⲱⲣⲏⲧⲏⲥ): l. 8
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
Firth 1912, pl. 51 a 3
Image
Image not available
Source
 
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
Łajtar – Ochała 2023, pp. 59–62, fig. 1
Other editions
Firth 1910, p. 104; Monneret de Villard 1935–1957: 1, p. 14
Other publications
I. Firth, pl. 51 a(3); Junker 1925b, pp. 112, 117; Žabkar 1967, p. 16; CSCN, pp. 111–114
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