Text 556
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Lepsius's expedition, findspot not recorded
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Berlin (previously Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin)
- Museum no.
- 9786 (old no. ÄM 1507)
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of Mariankouda, monk
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- keleusis type
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 36; W: 21; Th: 7–8.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- reddish brown
- Text colour
- Lines
- 11
- Height of letters
- 1.5–2 (ⲃ and ⲯ: 3)
- Description
- Complete roughly rectangular slab. The right margin slightly damaged, but not affecting the reading.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ϩⲛ̄ ⲥⲟⲩ ⲥⲟⲩ̣ ⲙⲡⲉⲃⲟⲧ ⲭⲟ︦ⲓ̣
- Transcription
- "on the sixth of the month of Choiak" (ll. 7–8)
- Months
- ⲭⲟ︦ⲓ̣
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- brother (= monk) (ⲥⲟⲛ): l. 5
monk (ⲡⲙ⸌ⲟ̣⸍ⲛⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍): ll. 6–7
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- I. Ghazali 45
- Image
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- Source
- Lepsius 1849–59, 6 (plates), 12, pl. 103, 44: https://edoc3.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/lepsius/tafelwa6.html
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 45
- Other editions
- Revillout 1885, p. 32, no. 48; Mallon 1914, col. 2883; SB Kopt. 1 492
- Other publications
- Lepsius 1849–59: 5 (text), p. 292; 6 (plates), 12, pl. 103, 44; Erman 1899, p. 413 (description and fragmentary German translation); Junker 1925, pp. 129, sub 7 (transcription of ll. 10–11), 131 (transcription of ll. 1–2), and 132, sub 3 (transcription of ll. 5–8); Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 255; Cramer 1949, p. 12; Catalogue Hamm 1996, p. 131, no. 89 (description and German translation); Satzinger 2004, p. 539 (on name)
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