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Text 90
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Trismegistos
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text 141236
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Provenance
Faras
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
N Church in the Desert
Excavation no.
Present location
not preserved
Museum no.
Medium
wall
Technique
painted (dipinto)
Type of text
unidentified
Language
Coptic
Content
fragment of inscription of Petrou, mentioning abba Shenouthos, archimandrite, son of Iesou
Date
probably 800–899
Notes
all editors - AD 880/1, but the last line appears to contain not a date but a numerical cryptogram '2597'
Material
plaster
Object dimensions
Text dimensions
not recorded
Object colour
Text colour
black
Lines
12-13
Height of letters
Description
graffiti in black ink
Decorative elements
State of preservation
only upper left and lower right corners preserved at moment of discovery; in middle 5 or 6 lines lacking
Date
probably 800–899
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Offices & titles
abba (ⲁ̣ⲃ̣): l. 11
archimandrite (ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲙⲁⲛ⸌ⲇ⸍): l. 11
monk (ⲙⲟⲛⲁⲭⲱⲥ): l. 12
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Griffith 1927, pl. 74.2
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Latest edition
I. Faras Copt., pp. 96–7, fig. 22
Other editions
Mileham 1910, p. 29; Griffith 1927, p. 93, pl. 74.2; Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, pp. 190–2
Other publications
Lethmayer – Zach 1986, p. 142; Łajtar 1992a, p. 121 (no. 6); CSBE(2), p. 82, n. 99; CSCN, p. 66, n. 59
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