Text 734
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- cathedral, west part of main nave, west pilaster, east face; above painting no. 15 (cross), above DBMNT 1851
- Excavation no.
- B 26a.3 (neg. no. Fa.62/3.0869)
- Present location
- National Museum, Warsaw
- Museum no.
- 234011
- Medium
- wall
- Technique
- painted (dipinto)
- Type of text
- private prayer
- Language
- Greek/Old Nubian
- Content
- prayer of King Ioel
- Date
- probably 1460–1490
- Notes
- Jakobielski thinks that this inscription is older than 15th cent.
- Material
- plaster
- Object dimensions
- Text dimensions
- H: 7.5; W: 49
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 4
- Height of letters
- Description
- four lines of inscription painted above representation of cross
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- originally preserved in larger fragment, but now only right half of the text preserved
- Date
- probably 1460–1490
- Chronological systems
- king's occurrence
- Dating formulae
- ⲁⲓ̈ ⲓ̈ⲱⲏⲗ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ
- Transcription
- "I, Ioel, king" (l. 3)
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- king (ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ): l. 3
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- neg. no. Fa.62/3.0869
- Image
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- Source
- Jakobielski 1974, fig. on p. 306
- Image
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- Latest edition
- Jakobielski 1974, p. 304 (no. 44) + fig.
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Michałowski 1974a, p. 228 (no. 51), fig. on p. 230; Łajtar – Ruffini 2011, p. 126
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