Text 74
- Provenance
- Dongola
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Church of Granite Columns, in pavement of main nave; next to Text 75
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- National Museum, Warsaw
- Museum no.
- 235162
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of Stephanou Inyitta, priest, chartoularios, notary, archimandrite, choiakishshil, and joknaishshil, son of Maranya
- Date
- 14 April 797
- Notes
- 'God of the spirits' type
second oldest appearance of the Era of the Martyrs
the oldest attestation of Old Nubian and of Nubian-type majuscules
weekday incorrect - 14.04.797 fell on Friday; lunar day incorrect – 3 days earlier than Alexandrian cycle
- Material
- marble
- Object dimensions
- H: 31.7; W: 18.1; Th: 6.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- grey, blue with white veins
- Text colour
- Lines
- 21
- Height of letters
- 0.6-1.8
- Description
- rectangular plaque
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete, surface eroded in places but not affecting the reading
- Date
- 14 April 797
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
day of the week
Era of the Martyrs
lunar calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲉⲛ ⲙⲏ⸌ⲛ⸍ ⲫⲁⲣ⸌ⲙ⸍ ⲓ︦ⲑ̄︥ ⲏⲙⲉⲣⲁ ⲡⲟⲩϣ • ⲁ̄ • ⲥⲉⲗⲗⲉⲛⲏ ⲓ︤ⲇ︥ ⲁⲡⲟ ⸌ⲙ⸍ ⲫⲓ︦ⲅ̄︥ :
- Transcription
- "in the month of Pharmouthi, (day) 19, on day poush one (= Sunday), on the 14th moon (day), (in the year) from the Martyrs 513" (ll. 18–20)
- Months
- ⲫⲁⲣ⸌ⲙ⸍
- Weakdays
- ⲏⲙⲉⲣⲁ ⲡⲟⲩϣ
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- priest (⳦): ll. 7, 16
chartoularios (ⲭⲁⲗ⸌ⲧ⸍): l. 16
notary (ⲛⲟ⸌ⲧ⸍): l. 16
archimandrite of (monastery of) Maria in Timaie (ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲙⲁⲛ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ ⲧⲓⲙⲁⲉⲓⲉ): ll. 16–17
choiakishshil (ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕϣ̄ϣⲗ̄): l. 17
joknashi (ⳝⲟⲕⲛⲁϣ̄ϣⲗ̄): l. 18
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Timaie (ⲧⲓⲙⲁⲉⲓⲉ): l. 17
(monastery of) Maria (in) Timaie (ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ ⲧⲓⲙⲁⲉⲓⲉ): l. 17
- Source
- National Museum, Warsaw: https://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/497540
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. Warsaw 110, pl. 110
- Other editions
- Łajtar 1992a, pp. 113–129, pl. 2 (mistaken caption); SB 20 14176; Łajtar 1997a, pp. 118–119 (no. 2)
- Other publications
- Leclant 1967, p. 214, pl. 57, fig. 53; Jakobielski – Ostrasz 1967/8, p. 133 (b), pls. 24, 26; Łajtar 1996c, p. 107 (no. 29); Łajtar 1999, p. 163 (no. 125); Łajtar 2001a, p. 332; Jakobielski 2001b, p. 30; CSBE(2), p. 82, n. 97, pp. 313–314 (no. 1), p. 316; Łajtar 2006a, pp. 102–103; CSCN, p. 80, table 47 on p. 337, p. 339; Ochała 2016a, n. 45 on p. 1281; Obłuski 2019, pp. 220, 285
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