Text 606
- Provenance
- Banganarti
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- upper church, room 24, inserted in pavement, script upside down
- Excavation no.
- SDRS 21/03
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 31225
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of Markos, hegemon
- Date
- 26 February 786
- Notes
- 'God of the spirits' type
- Material
- marble
- Object dimensions
- H: 37.8; W: 23.5; Th: 4.8
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- blue-grey
- Text colour
- Lines
- 16
- Height of letters
- 1.1-2.5
- Description
- roughly rectangular slab; traces of ruling in upper part
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete, clearly legible
- Date
- 26 February 786
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
indiction
Era of Diocletian
- Dating formulae
- ⲙ⸌ⲏ⸍ ⲫⲁⲙⲉⲛⲱⲑ · ⲃ̄ · ⲓⲛ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲑ̄ ⲉⲧⲟⲩⲥ ⲁⲡⲟ ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗ/ ⲫ︤ⲃ︥
- Transcription
- "in the month of Phamenoth, (day) 2, in the 9th indiction, in the year from Diocletian 502" (ll. 5-6)
- Months
- ⲫⲁⲙⲉⲛⲱⲑ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- hegemon (ⲏⲅⲉⲙⲱⲛ): l. 4
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- Catalogue London 2004, p. 224, no. 191
- Image
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- Source
- Łajtar 2003b, pl. I
- Image
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- Latest edition
- SEG 53 2021
- Other editions
- Łajtar 2003b, pp. 162–5 (no. 1), pl. 1
- Other publications
- Catalogue London 2004, p. 224 (no. 191); Łajtar 2004b, p. 256, fig. 2; Vantini 2009, pl. between pp. 192–3
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