'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)
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