Text 67

Provenance
Faras
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
north building, west wall, near north-west corner
Excavation no.
FA 110/63-64 (neg. nos. Fa.62/3.0647–0649)
Present location
National Museum, Warsaw
Museum no.
234292
Medium
wall
Technique
incised (inscription)
Type of text
foundation inscription
Language
Greek
Content
foundation inscription of Bishop Paulos
Date
1 May 707–29 August 707
Notes
I. Khartoum Copt. prints wrong museum number (234848)
year 423 from Diocletian was a leap year, lasting one day longer; 6th Constantinopolitan indiction began on 1 August 707 and Egyptian on 1 May 707
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 77; W: 51; Th: 27
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
grey
Text colour
 
Lines
26
Height of letters
1.5-2.5
Description
rectangular block; roughly rectangular epigraphic field framed by raised borders on top, left and right sides
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
complete
Date
1 May 707–29 August 707
Chronological systems
regnal years
indiction (Egyptian)
Era of Diocletian
Dating formulae
ⲉⲡⲓ ⲓ̈ⲁ ⲧⲏⲥ ⲃⲁⲥⲓⲗⲉⲓⲁⲥ ⲧⲟⲩ ⲑⲉⲟⲥⲧⲉⲡⲧⲟⲩ ⳤ ⲫⲓⲗⲟⲭ̄︤ⲩ︥̄ ⲃⲁⲥⲓⲗⲉⲱⲥ ⲙⲉⲣⲕⲟⲩⲣⲓⲟⲩ
ⲉⲡⲓⲛⲉⲙ⸌ⲏ⸍ ⲓⲛ︦ⲇ︥ ⲋ
ⲉⲧⲟⲩⲥ ⲧⲱⲛ ⲭⲣⲟⲛⲱⲛ ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲩ̄︤ⲕ︦ⲅ̄︥
Transcription
"in the 11th (year) of the reign of (...) king Merkourios" (ll. 3–5)
"in the 6th indiction" (l. 7)
"in the year of era of Diocletian 423" (l. 26)
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
king (ⲃⲁⲥⲓⲗⲉⲱⲥ): l. 5
eparch (ⲉⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍): l. 6
abba (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): ll. 10, 16
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
https://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/618257
Image
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Source
 
Image
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Latest edition
I. Warsaw 101, pl. 101
Other editions
Jakobielski 1966b, pp. 99–106, fig. 2; I. Faras Greek 1, fig. 1
Other publications
Michałowski 1964a, pp. 197–199, pl. 39b; Michałowski 1967, pp. 65–67; Jakobielski 1969, p. 500, fig. 2; Vantini 1970, pp. 186–188; I. Faras Copt., pp. 35–51; Rostkowska 1982, pp. 208–209 (partial transcription and translation); Munro-Hay 1982/3, pp. 97–99; Łajtar 1999, p. 162 (no. 117); Van der Vliet 1999b, pp. 84–97; Catalogue Vienna 2002, pp. 99–100 (no. 31), fig. on p. 101; Felle 2003, p. 86; Brakmann 2006, pp. 311–314; CSCN, table 11 on p. 71, pp. 74, 110, 115, 116, 121, 210, 212; Werner 2013, p. 82; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, pp. 64–65 (with fig.); Hendrickx 2019, pp. 7–8 (text and translation), 10–13 (discussion)
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