'God of the spirits' type bilingual text - Greek on the rim, Old Nubian inside circle; Griffith 1928b – AD 1158; corrected by Bagnall – Worp 1986; date in Old Nubian part only; 17 September 1157 fell on Tuesday; lunar day incorrect – 5 days earlier than Alexandrian cycle
Material
marble
Object dimensions
Diam: 72
Text dimensions
Object colour
white
Text colour
Lines
24 + 2
Height of letters
Description
round offering tray; double raised edge bearing Greek text, Old Nubian in central part
Decorative elements
State of preservation
complete
Date
17 September 1157
Chronological systems
Era of the Martyrs Egyptian calendar day of the week lunar calendar king's occurrence
"in the month of Tapot (= Epeiph), taking place on (day) eleven, when it was (year) 822 of «from the Martyrs»" (ll. 16–17) "in the month of Tapot, (day) 4, when it was (year) 848 of «from the Martyrs»" (ll. 18–19) "when it was (year) of 874 «from the Martyrs», on Thoth 20, (day) 14 of the moon, (day) 2 of poush (= Monday)" (ll. 22–4)
Months
ⲧⲁⲡⲟⲧ ⲑ︤ⲱ︦ⲑ︥̄̄
Weakdays
ⲡⲟⲩϣⲛ̄ · ⲃ · ⲗⲟ
Feasts
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Offices & titles
king (ⲃ︦ⲗ︦ⲥ︦): l. 1 (Greek); (ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲉⲓ): ll. 9, 16 (Old Nubian)
Griffith 1928b, pp. 2–12 (no. 1), fig. on p. 8, pl. 1; Zyhlarz 1932, pp. 190–3 (Old Nubian only)
Other publications
Burkitt 1930, pp. 209–10; Plumley 1978, pp. 238–9; P. QI 1 11, commentary to ll. 8–9; Munro-Hay 1982/3, p. 114; Bagnall – Worp 1986, passim (no. 3); Łajtar 1996c, p. 105 (no. 1); Welsby 2002, p. 89–90, fig. 34; CSBE(2), p. 86, n. 127, pp. 313–14 (no. 5), p. 317; Brakmann 2006, p. 305; CSCN, pp. 68, 238, 336, table 47 on p. 337; Łajtar 2014b, n. 1 on p. 221