Text 693
- Provenance
- Dongola
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- monastery on kom H, church, threshold of south pastophorium
- Excavation no.
- D.4/04
- Present location
- Dongola, storeroom of the Polish mission
- Museum no.
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 30 August 799–28 August 800
- Notes
- year 515 from Diocletian was a leap year, hence year 516 started on 30 August
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 11.5; W: 17.5; Th: 1.1
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- surface brown, backside light brown
- Text colour
- Lines
- 3
- Height of letters
- c. 2
- Description
- fragment of terracotta plaque; epigraphic field framed by double incised line; ruling marked by double lines
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- small fragment of left margin preserved
- Date
- 30 August 799–28 August 800
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
Era of Diocletian
- Dating formulae
- ⲉⲛ ⲙ⸌ⲏ⸍ⲛ[ⲓ --- ⲁⲡⲟ ⲇⲓⲟ]ⲕⲗⲏ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲫⲓⲋ :
- Transcription
- "in the month of [--- (in the year) from] Diocletian 516" (ll. 2–3)
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- Łajtar 2011, pp. 73–4, no. 14, fig. 12
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Gazda 2010, p. 47, fig. 13; Tsakos 2010a, p. 684, no. 10
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