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Text 599
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Trismegistos
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text 141647
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Provenance
unknown
Region
unknown
Findspot
unknown
Excavation no.
Present location
Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
Museum no.
SNM 9604 (old Karima Museum no. 65)
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Greek
Content
epitaph of Stephanos
Date
27 April 795
Notes
reading of indiction suggested by Łajtar (personal communication); 3rd indiction would be correct
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 33; W: 33; Th: 6-7
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines
8
Height of letters
2-3
Description
upper part of slab
Decorative elements
State of preservation
text relatively well preserved only in first 7 lines
Date
27 April 795
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
Era of the Martyrs
Era of Diocletian
indiction
Dating formulae
ⲙ⸌ⲏ⸍ ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲛ ⲃ̣̄ ⲓ̣ⲛ̣⸌ⲇ̣⸍ ̣̄ ̣ ̣ [---] ⲫ̄ⲓ︦ⲁ̄︥
(transcription by Ochała)
Transcription
"in the month of Pachon, day (2), in the [ ] indiction, [year from Diocletian] 511 (?)" (ll. 7–8)
Months
ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲛ
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Source
Tsakos 2009, phot. 5
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Tsakos 2009a, pp. 225–7 (no. 6), fig. 5
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