Text 73

Provenance
Faras (?)
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
unknown
Excavation no.
 
Present location
National Museum, Warsaw
Museum no.
198759 + 198763 (3 fragments) + 198842
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Greek
Content
epitaph of Iesou, son of Mariame
Date
21 March 1173
Notes
'God of the spirits' type
I. Warsaw 109 – "fevrier"; Bagnall – Worp 1986 – correctly; Weissbrodt reads 'on the 26th moon (day)'
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 63; W: 30: Th: 9
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
rose
Text colour
 
Lines
27
Height of letters
0.6-1.2
Description
rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by raised border; lower part left uninscribed
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
originally complete, now incomplete broken into 6 parts; almost whole upper part and fragment of left margin lacking; surface eroded, especially towards bottom
Date
21 March 1173
Chronological systems
Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar
lunar calendar
Dating formulae
ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲱⲡⲑ ⲫⲁⲙⲉⲛⲟⲑ ⲕ̄︤ⲉ︥̄ ⲥⲉⲗⲗⲉⲛⲏ ⲕ̣̄ⲋ̣̄
Transcription
"(in the year) from the Martyrs 889, Phamenoth 25, on the 26th (?) moon (day)" (ll. 25–7)
Months
ⲫⲁⲙⲉⲛⲟⲑ
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
https://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/602488
Image
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Image
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Latest edition
I. Warsaw 109, pl. 109
Other editions
Weissbrodt 1905/6, pp. 3–4 (no. 1), fig. on p. 3; I. Lefebvre 666; Weissbrodt 1909, pp. 4, 11–12 (on date); de Ricci 1909, pp. 154–160 (no. 5); SB 1 5716; I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 15; Sadurska 1958, pp. 173–179, fig. on p. 177; I. Faras Greek, pp. 51–52 (no. II), fig. 14
Other publications
Junker 1925b, p. 114; Monneret de Villard 1935–1957: 1, pp. 221–2; Oates 1963, p. 163 (no. 9); Tibiletti Bruno 1963, passim; Adams 1964, p. 248; Grumel 1965, p. 85 (no. 2); Žabkar 1967, p. 17 with n. 29; Jakobielski 1975a, p. 328; Bagnall – Worp 1986, passim (no. 7), esp. p. 352; Łajtar 1996c, p. 106 (no. 14); Łajtar 1999, pp. 162–163 (no. 124); CSBE(2), pp. 313–314 (no. 10); Twardecki 2000, pp. 9–10 (English translation), fig. 5; Twardecki 2001, p. 140 (no. 16); Łajtar 2006b, pp. 115–116 (no. 2); CSCN, table 11 on p. 71
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