Text 716
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- cathedral, east part of north aisle, north wall, close to northeast corner; to the right of painting no. 19 (Mary protecting Queen Mother Martha)
- Excavation no.
- D 81a.3 (neg. nos. Fa.62/3.1273, Fa.63/4.1367, Fa.63/4.1374, Fa.63/4.1382, Fa.63/4.1392)
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 24318
- Medium
- wall
- Technique
- painted (dipinto)
- Type of text
- dedicatory inscription
- Language
- Greek/Coptic/Old Nubian
- Content
- prayer for Mariakouda, priest of church of Mary in Pachoras, son of Petosa
- Date
- 1000–1025
- Notes
- ll. 1–8 in Greek, l. 9 in Coptic – dated to the early 11th century
ll. 11–16 in Old Nubian in a different hand, added at a later date, 12th–13th century
- Material
- plaster
- Object dimensions
- Text dimensions
- not recorded
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 16
- Height of letters
- Description
- dipinto probably written with one hand, although lower, Old Nubian part with bigger letters and less careful
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete, endings of lines obliterated
- Date
- 1000–1025
- Chronological systems
- liturgical calendar
Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲧⲏⲃⲓ · ⲉⲟⲣ⸌ⲑ⸍ · ⲕⲁ
- Transcription
- "the feast of Tybi, (day) 21" (l. 10)
- Months
- ⲧⲏⲃⲓ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
- ⲧⲏⲃⲓ · ⲉⲟⲣ⸌ⲑ⸍
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- Offices & titles
- priest of (church of) Mary in Pachoras (= Faras) (⳦ ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ ⲡⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲱⲣⲁⲥ): l. 8
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- (church of) Mary in Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ ⲡⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲱⲣⲁⲥ): l. 8
Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ ⲡⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲱⲣⲁⲥ): l. 8
- Source
- neg. no. Fa.62/3.1273 (= Kubińska 1974, fig. 44)
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- Jakobielski et alii 2017, p. 249 (no. 71)
- Other editions
- Altheim – Stiehl 1971, pp. 497–9; I. Faras Greek 22 & 49, p. 111, fig. 44 (Greek part)
- Other publications
- Michałowski 1967, pls. 64–5; I. Faras Copt., pp. 178–80, fig. 61; Quecke 1975, p. 457; Jakobielski 1975a, p. 330; CSCN, p. 322; CIEN 6, no. 59
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