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Text no.
Text 95
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Trismegistos
TM
text 101879
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Provenance
Faras
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
Anchorite's Grotto, central part of S wall; to the right of DBMNT 1643
Excavation no.
no. 24
Present location
not preserved
Museum no.
Medium
wall
Technique
painted (dipinto)
Type of text
colophon
Language
Coptic
Content
colophon of texts written on walls of Anchorite's Grotto by Theophilos, monk
Date
4 December 738
Notes
Material
plaster
Object dimensions
Text dimensions
H: 47; W: 40
Object colour
Text colour
reddish/brownish
Lines
13
Height of letters
2.5-3
Description
complete panel framed by double painted line
Decorative elements
State of preservation
at moment of first facsimile (1822) text complete, in 60-ies lacunae in lines 6-8 and 11-13
Date
4 December 738
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
indiction
Era of Diocletian
Dating formulae
ⲙ⸌ⲏ⸍ [ⲭ]ⲟⲓⲁⲭ⳽ ⲏ̄ ⲓ̈ⲛⲇⲓⳤⲧⲓⲟⲛⲟⲥ ⲍ̄ ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏⲧⲓⲁⲛⲟⲩ⳽ ⲩ̄︤ⲛ︦ⲉ̄︥
Transcription
"(in the) month of Choiak, (day) 8, in the 7th indiction, (year from) Diocletian 455" (ll. 11–13)
Months
[ⲭ]ⲟⲓⲁⲭ⳽
Weakdays
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Offices & titles
monk (ⲙⲟⲛⲟⲭⲟⲥ): l. 26
Toponyms & ethnonyms
Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Source
Griffith 1927, pl. 64.1
Image
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Source
Griffith 1927, pl. 70.24
Image
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Latest edition
SB Kopt. 2 1061
Other editions
Sayce 1898, p. 174; Griffith 1927, pp. 83, 88, pls. 64.1, 70.24; I. Faras Copt., pp. 63–6, figs. 9a, 9b; Kosack 1974, p. 333 (no. 114)
Other publications
Wilkinson 1835, p. 498; Crum 1899a, p. 63; Pietschmann 1899, p. 133; Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 190; DACL 3/2, col. 2882; CSBE(2), p. 74
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