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
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); Obłuski 2019, p. 272