Text 789
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- tomb T2 (296), S of cathedral (church 293)
- Excavation no.
- 66.3.15/4 (reg. no. 66/100)
- Present location
- British Museum, London
- Museum no.
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- unidentified
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 1000–1199
- Notes
- strongly resembling I. QI 63 (DBMNT 673) – certainly the same workshop and the same period; perhaps a bishop's epitaph
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 17; W: 16; Th: 4.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 4
- Height of letters
- 1.0-1.6
- Description
- fragment of rectangular (?) stela with rounded corners; epigraphic field framed by raised border; W of bottom margin c. 4.0
- Decorative elements
- oblique incised lines on the left raised border
- State of preservation
- lower left corner preserved: beginnings of lines with portions of left and lower margins
- Date
- 1000–1199
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. QI 78, fig. on p. 248
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Adams 2010, p. 305 (inventory)
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