Text 553

Provenance
unknown
Region
unknown
Findspot
unknown
Excavation no.
 
Present location
Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Berlin (lost)
Museum no.
9995
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Coptic
Content
epitaph of Isak, monk
Date
17 July 980–6 July 981
Notes
SBKopt. – AD 983/4
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 19; W: 24
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
11
Height of letters
 
Description
irregular slab; coarsely executed; right lower corner seemingly cut off although original; epigraphic field framed by raised border
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
complete; damaged in upper part but still legible; surface slightly worn
Date
17 July 980–6 July 981
Chronological systems
Era of the Saracens
Dating formulae
ⲥⲁⲣⲁⲕⲓⲛⲟⲥ ⲧⲟ

(corrected by Ochała)
Transcription
"(in the year from) the Saracens 370" (l. 8)
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
brother (= monk) (ⲥⲁⲛ): ll. 6–7
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
Bode Museum archives
Image
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Source
 
Image
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Latest edition
SB Kopt. 4 1992
Other editions
Cramer 1939, pp. 21–3
Other publications
Cramer 1949, p. 13; Ochała 2009, pp. 144–6; CSCN, pp. 150–2, 154–5
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