Text 565
- Provenance
- Aswan
- Region
- Egypt
- Findspot
- Deir Anba Hadra, church, south wall of north aisle, 1.9 m above floor level
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Aswan, Deir Anba Hadra, in situ
- Museum no.
- Medium
- wall
- Technique
- painted (dipinto)
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of Petro, monk in Deir Anba Hadra
- Date
- 19 April 962
- Notes
- the only mention of King Zacharias III
- Material
- plaster
- Object dimensions
- Text dimensions
- H: 22; W: 39
- Object colour
- Text colour
- red-brown
- Lines
- 6
- Height of letters
- 0.5–3.5
- Description
- five lines of painted inscription
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- text almost complete, endings of lines 1–2 damaged; obliterated in left-hand and lower parts
- Date
- 19 April 962
- Chronological systems
- regnal years
Egyptian calendar
Era of Diocletian
- Dating formulae
- ϩⲓ ⲧⲣⲟⲙⲡⲉ̣ [ⲁ̄] ⲛ̄ⲍⲁⲭⲁⲣⲓ ⲡⲣⲣⲟ
ⲁⲡⲟ ⲇⲓⲟⲕ/ ⲭ̄︤ⲟ︦ⲏ︥ ⲡⲁⲣⲙⲟⲩⲧⲉ ⲥⲟⲩ ⲕⲇ - Transcription
- "in year [1] of Zacharias, king" (ll. 2–3)
"(in the year) from Diocletian 678, (in the month of) Pharmouthi, day 24" (ll. 4–5) - Months
- ⲡⲁⲣⲙⲟⲩⲧⲉ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- brother (= monk) (ⲡⲉⲛⲥⲟⲛ): l. 2
king (ⲡⲣⲣⲟ): l. 3
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- monastery of Apa Hadra (ⲡⲙⲁⲛϣⲱ(ⲡⲉ) ⲛⲁⲡⲁ ⲭⲁⲧⲣⲉ): ll. 13-14
- Source
- Dijkstra – Van der Vliet 2003, fig. 2
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- Dijkstra – Van der Vliet 2003, pp. 31–9, figs. 1–2
- Other editions
- Bouriant 1894, p. 136 (no. 4)
- Other publications
- Monneret de Villard 1927, p. 9; Munier 1930–1, p. 479; CSCN, pp. 210, 211, 213, 216; Werner 2013, pp. 100–1, with n. 21; Łajtar 2014b, n. 22, on p. 226
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