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Provenance
Banganarti
Region
Makuria
Findspot
lower church, in debris in apse
Excavation no.
 
Present location
Banganarti (?)
Museum no.
 
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Greek
Content
epitaph of Maria
Date
probably 29 August 853–28 August 854
Notes
 
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 34; W: 29; Th: 9.5
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
light grey
Text colour
 
Lines
14
Height of letters
1.2-2.1
Description
rectangular slab
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
preserved in two fragments; middle left-hand part missing
Date
probably 29 August 853–28 August 854
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
Era of Diocletian
Dating formulae
[---] ⲃ̄ ⲉⲧ⸌ⲟⲩ⸍ⲥ ⲁⲡⲟ ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲫ̣ ̣
Transcription
"[---] 2, in the year from Diocletian 5[.]" (ll. 8–9)
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
Łajtar 2007, fig. on p. 137
Image
Image not available
Source
Łajtar 2003b, pl. II
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
SEG 57 1988
Other editions
Łajtar 2003b, pp. 165–9 (no. 2), pl. 2; SEG 53 2022; Łajtar 2007, pp. 135–7, fig. on p. 137
Other publications
Łajtar 2004b, p. 258, fig. 3; Diethart 2015, pp. 41–3; CIEN 4, no. 64
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