Text 560

Provenance
Dongola
Region
Makuria
Findspot
monastery on kom H, north-west annex, room 2a, east wall, north of entrance to room 5
Excavation no.
 
Present location
Dongola, in situ
Museum no.
 
Medium
stela
Technique
incised & painted
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Greek
Content
epitaph of Georgios, archbishop
Date
29 June 1113
Notes
'God of the spirits' type
weekday correct
Material
marble
Object dimensions
H: 27.5; W: 25.5
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
greyish-blueish
Text colour
red
Lines
24
Height of letters
0.6-1.8
Description
roughly rectangular plaque
Decorative elements
letters in the middle painted red to form a cross
State of preservation
complete; put together from 2 fragments
Date
29 June 1113
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
Era of the Martyrs
day of the week
Dating formulae
ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲏ ⲉ̄ ⲙⲏ⸌ⲛ⸍ ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲱ̄︤ⲕ̄︥ⲑ ⲏ̇ⲙⲉⲣⲁ ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲁⲕⲏ ⲱⲣⲁ ⲋ̄
Transcription
"in the month of Epeiph, (day) 5, (in the year) from the Martyrs 829, on Sunday, in the sixth hour" (ll. 18–19)
Months
ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲏ
Weakdays
ⲏⲙⲉⲣⲁ ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲁⲕⲏ
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
abba (ⲁ︦ⲃ︦): ll. 5, 13, 18
archbishop (ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲉⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍): l. 5
archimandrite of Great (monastery of) Anthony (ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲙⲁⲛ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲁⲛ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲙⲉ⸌ⲅ⸍): ll. 5–6; (ⲟ ⲙⲉⲅⲁⲥ ⲁⲛ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲙⲁⲛ⸌ⲇ⸍): l. 14
archistylites of (monastery of) the Holy Trinity (ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲥⲧⲩ⸌ⲗ⸍ ⲧⲣⲓⲁⲥ ⲁⲅⲓⲁⲥ): ll. 13–14
Toponyms & ethnonyms
Great (monastery of) Anthony (ⲁⲛ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲙⲉ⸌ⲅ⸍): l. 6; (ⲟ ⲙⲉⲅⲁⲥ ⲁⲛ⸌ⲧ⸍): l. 14
(monastery of) the Holy Trinity (ⲧⲣⲓⲁⲥ ⲁⲅⲓⲁⲥ) ll. 13–14
Source
Łajtar – van der Vliet 2017, fig. 5
Image
Image not available
Source
Łajtar – van der Vliet 2017, fig. on p. 21
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
Łajtar – van der Vliet 2017, pp. 18–22, no. I, fig. on p. 21 and fig. 5
Other editions
Łajtar 1997a, pp. 120–121, no. 4; Łajtar 2002, pp. 164–184, pl. after p. 164
Other publications
Jakobielski 1994, p. 118; Jakobielski 1995a, p. 40; Łajtar 1995, pp. 50–55; Łajtar 1996c, p. 106, no. 31; Martens-Czarnecka 2001b, p. 220–221, fig. 1; Łajtar – Pluskota 2001, p. 347; Jakobielski 2001b, p. 42, pls. 20, 21.1; CSBE(2), p. 86, n. 125, p. 317; Brakmann 2006, pp. 297, 314; Martens-Czarnecka 2006, p. 321, fig. 1; Jakobielski 2008, p. 291, fig. 12; CSCN, table 47 on p. 337; Godlewski 2013a, fig. on p. 117; Godlewski 2013b, pp. 663–665, fig. 1; Łajtar 2014b, p. 224; Łajtar 2015b, pp. 241–242; CIEN 5, no. 73; Godlewski 2018b, p. 57, fig. 4.17; Łajtar 2020a, p. 14; Mahler 2022, pp. 416–418, fig. on p. 416
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