Text 809
- Provenance
- Dongola (reportedly)
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- unknown
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 7
- Medium
- stone block
- Technique
- incised (inscription)
- Type of text
- commemorative inscription
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- inscription mentioning abba Ephanni, priest and archimandrite
- Date
- probably 600–1299
- Notes
- perhaps architectonical element from wall of (ecclesiastic) building with name of the supervisor of the building's erection
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 26; W: 23; Th: 10
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- grey
- Text colour
- Lines
- 3
- Height of letters
- 1.0–2.2 (2.4–3.5 in monogram)
- Description
- roughly rectangular block with rounded conrers; epigraphic field framed by double incised line
- Decorative elements
- monogram of Michael in form of the cross under the inscription; four rosettes with eight petals each around the monogram (one on each side); Maltese cross in l. 1 (upper left corner)
- State of preservation
- complete
- Date
- probably 600–1299
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- abba (ⲁ︦ⲃ︦): l. 1
priest (⳦): l. 2
archimandrite (ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲙⲛ⸌ⲇ⸍): ll. 2–3
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Greek 27, pl. 26
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Łajtar 1992a, p. 121 (no. 11); Żurawski 2001b, p. 75, n. 6 (no. 1); Łajtar – Pluskota 2001, pp. 354–355; Hinkel – Abdelrahman Ali Mohamed 2002, p. 2, fig. on p. 272
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