Text 552
- Provenance
- unknown
- Region
- unknown
- Findspot
- unknown
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Berlin
- Museum no.
- 9941
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of Mena, monk
- Date
- 4 July 972
- Notes
- dates corrected by Bagnall – Worp 1986; Hegira dates 368 and 378 give AD 979 or 988, respectively; SBKopt. – AD 982/3
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 33; W: 20
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 14
- Height of letters
- Description
- roughly rectangular slab, slightly narrower towards bottom; coarsely executed; epigraphic field framed by raised border
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete but surface worn and hardly legible in places; some minor damages visible on raised border
- Date
- 4 July 972
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
Era of the Saracens
Era of Diocletian
- Dating formulae
- ⲁⲡⲱ ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲓⲥ ⲭⲡⲏ ⲥⲁⲣⲁⲕⲛⲟⲥ ⲧ[ ̣]ⲏ
ⲉⲡⲉⲫ ⲓ
(corrected by Ochała) - Transcription
- "(in the year) from Diocletian 688, (in the year from) the Saracens 3[.]8" (ll. 6–8)
"Epeiph 10" (l. 10) - Months
- ⲉⲡⲉⲫ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- brother (= monk) (ⲥⲁⲛ): l. 9
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- SB Kopt. 4 1991
- Other editions
- Cramer 1939, pp. 21–3
- Other publications
- Cramer 1949, p. 13; MacCoull – Worp 1990, p. 397; CSBE(2), p. 80, n. 81; Ochała 2009, pp. 144–6; CSCN, pp. 65, 150–2
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