Text 651
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- tomb T2 (296), S of cathedral (church 293)
- Excavation no.
- 66.3.16/5 (reg. no. (66/105)
- Present location
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Museum no.
- JdE 90882
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek/Coptic/Old Nubian
- Content
- epitaph of Marianou, bishop
- Date
- 29 August 992–28 August 993
- Notes
- date uncertain due to the presence of two different numerals; weekday in Coptic; length of life in Old Nubian
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 44; W: 17.5; Th: 10
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 19
- Height of letters
- Description
- roughly rectangular slab, epigraphic field framed by slightly raised border
- Decorative elements
- in upper part 2 arch-like elements surmounted with Maltese cross; rosette between arches
- State of preservation
- complete, apart from minor damages in lower left edge
- Date
- 29 August 992–28 August 993
- Chronological systems
- day of the week
Era of the Martyrs
- Dating formulae
- ⲉⲛ ⲏⲙⲉⲣⲁ : ⲡⲉϫⲟⲟⲩ ⲉϥⲧⲟⲟⲩ … ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ … ⲯⲑ̄
- Transcription
- "on day four (= Wednesday) (...), (in the year) from the Martyrs 709 (?)" (ll. 13–17)
- Months
- Weakdays
- ⲏⲙⲉⲣⲁ : ⲡⲉϫⲟⲟⲩ ⲉϥⲧⲟⲟⲩ
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- bishop (ⲉⲡ︦ⲟ︦ⲥ︦): l. 8
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. QI 18, fig. on p. 59
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Plumley 1970, p. 131, il. 103; Adams 2010, p. 305 (inventory), pl. 42a; Łajtar – van der Vliet 2010, p. 716; CSCN, p. 65, n. 78 on p. 75, p. 335
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