Text 655
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- tomb T2 (296), S of cathedral (church 293)
- Excavation no.
- 66.3.16/4 (reg. no. 66/106)
- Present location
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Museum no.
- JdE 90883
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek/Old Nubian
- Content
- epitaph of Marianou, bishop of Kourte
- Date
- 20 December 1154
- Notes
- ll. 27–33 in Old Nubian (dating and length of life)
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 51.5; W: 23; Th: 12
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 33
- Height of letters
- Description
- rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by raised border and divided into two parts - upper with decoration, lower with inscription
- Decorative elements
- raised border decorated with incised wavy lines; upper part of epigraphic field decorated with 3 mountaines surmounted by crosses
- State of preservation
- complete; lacuna in two last lines
- Date
- 20 December 1154
- Chronological systems
- Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- [ⲁ]ⲡⲱ [ⲙⲁⲣ]⸌ⲧ̣⸍ ⲱ̣ⲟⲁ ⲉⲓⲛⲛ̄ ̣ ̣ ̣[---] ̣ : ⲭⲱ⸌ⲓⲉ⸍ⲕ : ⲕ︤ⲇ︥ [---]
- Transcription
- "when it was (year) 861 from the [Mart]t(yrs) ...], Choiak 24" (ll. 33–5)
- Months
- ⲭⲱ⸌ⲓⲉ⸍ⲕ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- abba (ⲁ︦ⲃ︦): ll. 8, 23, 26
orthodox bishop of Kourte (ⲟⲣ⸌ⲑ⸍ ⲉⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲕⲟⲩⲣⲧⲉ): l. 9
bishop of Kourte (ⲉⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲕⲟⲩⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍): ll. 23, 27
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Kourte (ⲕⲟⲩⲣⲧⲉ): l. 9; (ⲕⲟⲩⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍): ll. 23, 27
- Latest edition
- I. QI 24, fig. on p. 99
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Plumley 1970, p. 131, il. 108; Adams 2010, p. 305 (inventory), pl. 42b; Łajtar – van der Vliet 2010, p. 716
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