DBMNT

Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cathedral, western group of bishops’ tombs, immured in the western façade of the cathedral, above the tomb
Excavation no.: F 390/62-63 (neg. nos. Fa.61/2.0660, Fa.61/2.0759, Fa.62/3.0823)
Present location: National Museum, Warsaw
Museum no.: 234646

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of Stephanos, bishop
Date: 14 July 926
Notes: the 532-year cycle ended on 24 March 893 but the redactor did not stop counting years; the epacts agree with the rest of the date (15th year of the Metonic 19-year lunar cycle, in which there are 4 epact days); lunar day incorrect – 1 earlier than Alexandrian cycle; weekday correct

Description: trapezoid plaque
Decorative elements: part of letters painted red forming cross in the middle of epigraphic field
State of preservation: complete

Date: 14 July 926
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
day of the week
Era of the World Creation
Era of the Incarnation
lunar calendar
indiction (Constantinopolitan)
Alexandrian cycle of 532 years
Era of Diocletian

Dating formulae: ⲉⲛ ⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲓ ⲕ̄ • ⲏ̇ⲙⲉⲣⲁ ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲥⲕⲉⲩⲏ ⲁⲡ⸌ⲟ⸍ ⲕⲟⲥⲙⲟⲡ⸌ⲟ⸍ ⲉⲧ⸌ⲏ⸍ ⲋ̄︤ⲩ︦ⲓ︦ⲏ︥̄ • ⲡⲉⲣⲓⲟ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲫⲝ︦ⲋ̄︥ • ⲓⲛ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲓ︤ⲇ︥ • ⲁⲡ⸌ⲟ⸍ ⲭ̄︤ⲩ︦ ↑̄︤ⲓ︦ⲏ︥̄ • ⲁⲡ⸌ⲟ⸍ ⲇⲓⲟ⸌ⳤ⸍ ⲭ̄︤ⲙ︦ⲃ •
ⲉⲛ ⲉⲡⲁⲕ⸌ⲧ⸍ • ⲇ̄ : ⲥⲉⲗⲏ⸌ⲛ⸍ • ⲁ̄ :
Transcription: "in moth of Epeiph, (day) 20, Preparation Day (= Friday), from the creation of the world year 6418, period, (year) 566, in the 14th indiction, (year) from (the birth) of Christ 918, (year) from Diocletian 642" (ll. 5–8)
"in 4 epacts, on the 1st moon (day)" (l. 18)
Months: ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲓ
Weakdays: ⲏⲙⲉⲣⲁ ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲥⲕⲉⲩⲏ
Feasts

Latest edition: I. Warsaw 107, pl. 107
Other editions: Jakobielski 1965, p. 168, no. 4, figs. 45, 88; I. Faras Greek 6, fig. 7

Other publications: Michałowski 1962c, p. 120; Michałowski 1963b, pp. 244, 248, pl. 58b; Michałowski 1964b, p. 86, fig. 40; Michałowski 1965a, pp. 72–6 (context), fig. 45; Jakobielski 1969, pp. 501–2; I. Faras Copt., pp. 104–6; Quecke 1975, pp. 458–9; Hagedorn 1976, p. 184; Bagnall – Worp 1986, no. 1, passim, esp. p. 350; Łajtar 1999, p. 162, no. 123; Catalogue Vienna 2002, p. 105, no. 34, fig. on p. 104; CSBE(2), p. 79, n. 75, pp. 313–14, no. 2, p. 316; Ochała 2011b, p. 222, no. 9; CSCN, pp. 115, 122, 193, 196–7, 199, 311, table 47 on p. 337; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, pp. 104–5 (with fig.)

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