Text 83
- Provenance
- Meinarti (?)
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- unknown
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Musée du Louvre, Paris
- Museum no.
- MND 855
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of Papsa, priest, choiakishshil, son of Maranya
- Date
- 27 November 1181
- Notes
- 'God of the spirits' type
lunar day incorrect – 1 day earlier than Alexandrian cycle
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 47; W: 28; Th: 9
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 28
- Height of letters
- c. 1
- Description
- rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by raised border
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete
- Date
- 27 November 1181
- Chronological systems
- Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar
lunar calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲁ̇ⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲱ̄ϥ︦ⲏ︥ ⲏⲙⲉⲣⲁ ⲭⲟⲓⲁ ⲙⲓⲛⲟⲥ ⲁ̄ • ⲥⲉⲗⲗⲉⲛⲏ • ⲓ︤ⲏ︥̄ •
- Transcription
- "(in the year) from the Martyrs 898, on the 1st day of the month of Choiak, on the 18th moon (day)" (ll. 23–4)
- Months
- ⲭⲟⲓⲁ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- priest (⳦): ll. 7, 20, 25
choiakishshil (ⲕⲉⲓⲁⲕϣϣⲓ): ll. 25–6
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Louvre Greek 115, pl. 67
- Other editions
- de Ricci 1909, pp. 153–161; SB 3 6035; SB 5 8765; I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 16; I. Faras Greek, pp. 53–54 (no. III)
- Other publications
- Monneret de Villard 1937, p. 64; Oates 1963, p. 163 (no. 11); Tibiletti Bruno 1963, passim; Grumel 1965, p. 87 (no. 5); Žabkar 1967, p. 17 with n. 29; Bagnall – Worp 1986, passim (no. 9); Łajtar 1992a, p. 123 (no. 2); Łajtar 1993c, pp. 245–247; Łajtar 1994c, p. 571; Łajtar 1996c, p. 106 (no. 16); CSBE(2), pp. 313–314 (no. 12); Łajtar 2006b, p. 117 (no. 3)
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