Text 612
- Provenance
- Dongola
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- monastery on kom H, church, inside presbytery, near south end of altar screen
- Excavation no.
- D.1/04
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum (temporarily in National Museum, Warsaw)
- Museum no.
- SNM 31481
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek/Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of Ioseph, bishop of Aswan
- Date
- 28 April 668 or 28 April 670
- Notes
- two-year difference between Diocletian and indiction dates
ll. 1–5, 30–2 in Greek
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 81; W: 62; Th: 9
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 32
- Height of letters
- Description
- rectangular slab; epigraphic field surrounded by raised border forming cross with triangles in corners
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- found in several pieces, almost complete, but some pieces still lacking
- Date
- 28 April 668 or 28 April 670
- Chronological systems
- indiction (Egyptian)
Era of Diocletian
Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- · ⲉⲛ ⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲛ ⲅ ⲓⲛⲇ/ ⲧⲣⲉⲓⲥⲕⲁⲓⲇⲉⲕⲋ ⲇⲓⲟⳤ ⲧⲡ︦ⲇ
- Transcription
- "in the month of Pachon, (day) 3, in the thirteenth indiction, (year) from Diocletian 384" (ll. 29–31)
- Months
- ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲛ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- abba (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): l. 2
bishop of the city of the Syenites (= Aswan) (ⲉⲡⲓⲥⳤ ⲧⲏⲥ ⲥⲩⲏⲛⲓⲧⲱⲛ ⲡⲟⲗⲉⲱⲥ): ll. 3–4
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Syene (= Aswan) (ⲧⲏⲥ ⲥⲩⲏⲛⲓⲧⲱⲛ ⲡⲟⲗⲉⲱⲥ): ll. 3–4
- Source
- Jakobielski – Van der Vliet 2011, fig. 3
- Image
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- Source
- Jakobielski – Van der Vliet 2011, fig. 4
- Image
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- Latest edition
- Jakobielski – Van der Vliet 2011, pp. 15–35, figs. 1–4
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Gazda 2005, pp. 292–293, fig. 13; Grimal - Aldy 2005, p. 308; Brakmann 2006, p. 297; Catalogue Warsaw 2006, pp. 20–21, fig. 6, pp. 55–56, no. 14; Jakobielski 2008, p. 283, fig. 3; Vantini 2009, p. 210; Gazda 2010, pp. 46–47, fig. 10; CSCN, pp. 74, 102–103, 117; Godlewski 2013a, p. 117 (with fig.); Obłuski – Dzierzbicka 2022, fig. on p. 316; Łajtar 2020a, p. 14, fig. 12
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