Text 983

Provenance
Qasr Ibrim, Gebel Maktub
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
rocks on the hill east of Qasr Ibrim
Excavation no.
 
Present location
Gebel Maktub, in situ (?)
Museum no.
 
Medium
rock
Technique
incised (graffito)
Type of text
visitor's inscription
Language
Greek
Content
inscription left by Chael, cleric, son of Kollouthos, bishop of Pachoras
Date
900–950
Notes
 
Material
stone
Object dimensions
not recorded
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
5
Height of letters
 
Description
5 lines of inscription
Decorative elements
large cross framing whole inscription on the left
State of preservation
complete
Date
900–950
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
cleric (ⲕ︦ⲗ︦ⲏ︦): l. 1
abba (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): l. 2
bishop of metropolis of Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲉⲡⲓⲥⲕⲱⲡⲟⲩ ⲙⲏⲧⲣⲟⲡⲟⲗⲓⲥ ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): ll. 3–5
Toponyms & ethnonyms
Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): l. 5
Source
Łajtar – Van der Vliet 2011b, fig. 3
Image
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Source
 
Image
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Latest edition
Łajtar – Van der Vliet 2011b, pp. 141–148, fig. 3
Other editions
CIG 4 8952; I. Lefebvre 632; Monneret de Villard 1935–1957: 1, p. 116; Monneret de Villard 1938, pp. 160–161; SB 5 8713; I. Faras Copt., p. 104
Other publications
Barth 1850, p. 270 (no. 79); Monneret de Villard 1937, p. 63; Plumley – Adams, p. 235; Plumley 1982b, p. 108 (mentioned); Łajtar – van der Vliet 2013, p. 163
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