DBMNT

Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: funerary complex of bishops south of cathedral, in situ in central tomb
Excavation no.: F 382/62-63 (neg. no. Fa.62/3.0822)
Present location: National Museum, Warsaw
Museum no.: 234647

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of Ignatios, bishop
Date: 23 January 802
Notes: World Creation and Incarnation Eras in a version counted from 29 August; weekday correct

Description: rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by incised line; text divided by ruling; last part of text running around main part; type of script without analogies in Nubia
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete

Date: 23 January 802
Chronological systems: Era of the World Creation
Era of the Incarnation
Egyptian calendar
day of the week
indiction
Era of Diocletian

Dating formulae: ⲉⲛ ⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲧⲩⲃⲓ ⲕ︤ⲏ︥ ⲏⲙⲉ ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲁⲕ̄ⲏ ⲉⲧ(ⲟ)ⲩⲥ ⲕⲟⲥⲙⲟⲡⲟⲓⲁⲥ ⲋ̄︤ⲥ︦ϥ︦ⲇ︥ ⲉⲧ(ⲟ)ⲩⲥ ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲫⲓ︦ⲏ︥̄ ⲓⲛ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲓ︦
ⲉⲡⲓ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲭ̄︤ⲩ︦ ⲯϥⲇ ---
Transcription: "in the month of Tybi, (day) 28, Sunday, (in the) year from the creation of the world 6294, (in the) year from Diocletian 518, in the 10th indiction" (ll. 5–6)
"in (the year from) the sojourn of Christ (on earth) 794" (l. 16)
Months: ⲧⲩⲃⲓ
Weakdays: ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲁⲕⲏ
Feasts

Latest edition: I. Warsaw 106, pl. 106
Other editions: I. Faras Copt., pp. 70–72, 202–205, fig. 73; I. Faras Greek 4, fig. 5

Other publications: Michałowski 1964a, p. 196; Michałowski 1967, p. 74; Jakobielski 1969, pp. 501–2, fig. 4; Quecke 1975, p. 458; Jakobielski 1975a, p. 325; Hagedorn 1976, p. 184; Catalogue Hamm 1996, p. 130 (no. 88); Donadoni 1984, p. 16; Łajtar 1999, p. 162 (no. 122); Łajtar 2001a, p. 332; Catalogue Vienna 2002, pp. 100–101 (no. 32), fig. on p. 102; CSBE(2), p. 76, n. 50, p. 316; CSCN, pp. 122, 192, 193, 199, table 47 on p. 337; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, pp. 98–9 (with fig.); Łajtar 2020c, pp. 262–263, 270–271

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