Text 75
- Provenance
- Dongola
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Church of Granite Columns, in pavement of main nave; next to DBMNT 74
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- National Museum, Warsaw
- Museum no.
- 235164
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of Thomas, priest
- Date
- 29 April 799
- Notes
- Alexandrian eras give AD 798, Diocletian and indictions AD 799
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 43.5; W: 37; Th: 6.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- grey
- Text colour
- red (traces visible at moment of discovery)
- Lines
- 17
- Height of letters
- 1.2-1.3
- Description
- rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by double incised lines; regular ruling
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- almost complete; parts of all corners lacking - most severe in upper left and lower right, causing damage to text; also part of left margin lacking
- Date
- 29 April 799
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
Era of the World Creation
Era of the Incarnation
indiction
Era of Diocletian
- Dating formulae
- ⲉⲛ ⲙ̄︥︤ⲏ︥̄ ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲛ ⲇ̄
ⲓⲛ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲍ ⲧⲟⲩ ⲕⲟⲥⲙⲟⲩ ⲉ⸌ⲧ⸍ⲏ ⲉⲝⲁⲕⲓⲥⲭⲓⲗⲓⲁ ⲇⲓⲁⲕⲟⲥⲓⲁ ϥ ⲁⲡⲟ ⲉⲡⲓⲇⲓⲙⲓⲁⲥ ⲭⲩ ⲯϥ ⲁⲡⲟ ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏⲧⲓⲁ[ⲛ]ⲟⲩ ⲫⲓ︦ⲉ̄︥ - Transcription
- "in the month of Pachon, (day) 4" (l. 7)
"in the 7th indiction, years (from the Creation of the) world year six thousand two hundred 90, (year) from the sojourn of Christ (on earth) 790, (year) from Diocletian 515" (ll. 8–10) - Months
- ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲛ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- priest (⳦ⲃⲩⲧ): l. 12
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- National Museum, Warsaw: https://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/497541
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. Warsaw 113, pl. 113
- Other editions
- Łajtar 1992a, pp. 129–42, pl. 1 (mistaken caption); SB 20 14177; Łajtar 1997a, pp. 124–5 (no. 9)
- Other publications
- Leclant 1967, p. 214, pl. 57, fig. 53; Jakobielski – Ostrasz 1967/8, p. 133 (c), pls. 24, 27; Łajtar 1999, p. 163 (no. 126); Jakobielski 2001b, p. 30; CSBE(2), p. 76; Brakmann 2006, pp. 301, 317; CSCN, pp. 70, 122, 196, 199
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