Text 692

Provenance
Dongola
Region
Makuria
Findspot
monastery on kom H, north-west annex, room 2B, reused as first step of ambo, put inscribed face up
Excavation no.
D.100/93-4
Present location
Dongola, storeroom of the Polish mission
Museum no.
 
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Greek
Content
epitaph of unidentified person
Date
4 January 1070
Notes
Łajtar 2011 – 5 January
Material
marble
Object dimensions
H: 36.3; W: 24.8; Th: 5.4
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
grey-blue
Text colour
 
Lines
25
Height of letters
c. 0.5
Description
roughly rectangular slab
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
left upper corner broken off; part of surface of lower left corner lacking; surface very much obliterated, especially in central part of stone
Date
4 January 1070
Chronological systems
Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar
Dating formulae
[ⲧ]ⲩⲃ̣ⲓ ⲧⲟⲩ ⲙⲏⲛⲟⲥ ⲑ̄ ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲯⲡⲋ
Transcription
"in the month of Tybi, (day) 9, (in the year) from the Martyrs 786" (ll. 23–5)
Months
[ⲧ]ⲩⲃ̣ⲓ
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
Łajtar 2011, fig. 1
Image
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Source
 
Image
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Latest edition
Łajtar 2011, pp. 39–42, no. 1, fig. 1
Other editions
 
Other publications
Jakobielski 1994, p. 118; Jakobielski 2001c, p. 166; CSCN, p. 65
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