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Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cathedral, western group of bishops’ tombs, immured in the western façade of the cathedral (in blockage of the western entrance), above the tomb
Excavation no.: F 388/61-62 (neg. nos. Fa.61/2.0469, Fa.61/2.0471, Fa.61/2.0484, Fa.61/2.0650, Fa.61/2.0661, Fa.62/3.0820, Fa.62/3.0820a)
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.: SNM 23377

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of Kollouthos, bishop of Pachoras
Date: 13 August 923
Notes: the 532-year cycle ended on 24 March 893 but the redactor did not stop counting years

Material: marble
Object dimensions: H. 63; W: 53; Th: 4-13
Text dimensions
Object colour: white with cream-blue patina
Text colour: red
Lines: 15
Height of letters: 1.3-1.5

Description: rectangular slab with large circular hole at bottom; 7 cm high border along preserved edges; probably fragment of offering tray
Decorative elements: in corners letters painted in red to form a cross
State of preservation: text preserved in full although stone is just a fragment of a larger object, re-used as stela

Date: 13 August 923
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
Era of the World Creation
indiction (Constantinopolitan)
Era of the Incarnation
Alexandrian cycle of 532 years
Era of Diocletian

Dating formulae: ⲉⲛ ⲧⲏ • ⲕ ⲧⲟⲩ ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲣⲏ ⲙⲏⲛⲟⲥ • ⲁⲡⲟ ⲕⲟⲥⲙⲟⲩ • ⲋ̄︤ⲩ︦ⲓ︦ⲉ̄︥ • ⲡⲉⲣⲓⲟⲇⲟⲥ • ⲫⲝⲅ ⲓⲛ⸌ⲇ⸍ • ⲓ̄ⲁ︥̄ • ⲁⲡⲟ ⲭ̄︤ⲩ︦ ↑̄ⲓ︦ⲉ̄︥ • ⲁⲡ⸌ⲟ⸍ ⲇⲓⲟⳤ • ⲭ̄︤ⲗ︦ⲑ̄︥
Transcription: "on (day) 20 of the month of Mesore, (year) from (the creation of) the world 6415, period, (year) 563, in the 11th indiction, (year) from (the birth of) Christ 915, (year) from Diocletian 639" (ll. 4–6)
Months: ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲣⲏ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: abba (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): l. 4
bishop (ⲉⲡⲓⲥⲕⲟⲡⲟⲩ): l. 4

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: neg. no. Fa.62/3.0820 (= I. Khartoum Greek, pl. 1)
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Khartoum Greek 1, pl. 1
Other editions: Jakobielski 1965, pp. 164–6, no. 3, fig. 87; I. Faras Greek 5, fig. 6

Other publications: Michałowski 1962c, p. 120; Michałowski 1963b, p. 244, pl. 55b; Michałowski 1964b, p. 86, fig. 40; Michałowski 1965a, pp. 72–6 (context), fig. 43; Bull.épigr. 1966, 498; Michałowski 1967, p. 80; Jakobielski 1969, pp. 501–2; I. Faras Copt., pp. 102–4; Quecke 1975, pp. 458–9; Jakobielski 1975a, p. 236; Hagedorn 1976, p. 184; CSBE(2), p. 79; Brakmann 2006, p. 301; CSCN, pp. 115, 122, 193, 196–7, 199

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TrismegistosTM text 102625

Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: tomb east of cathedral, immured in east wall
Excavation no.: F 220/61-2 (inscr. inv. 63/I/58; neg. nos. Fa.61.427, Fa.61/2.0094, Fa.61/2.0094a)
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.: unknown

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of Ioannes (III), bishop of Pachoras
Date: 21 September 1005
Notes: 'God of the spirits' type
weekday correct

Material: marble
Object dimensions: H: 60; W: 45; Th: 4.8
Text dimensions: H: 51; W: 31.5
Object colour: blue with grey patina
Text colour
Lines: A: 16; B: 13
Height of letters: c. 3.5

Description: slab in shape of pediment standing on right edge; square hole in upper part - probably form hanging the stela; epigraphic field marked out by lines incised in top, bottom and right side and by raised border running along left edge; divided into two uneven parts, part A larger with ruling; part B, on right side, without internal division
Decorative elements
State of preservation: text complete, with small lacuna in line 1; slab broken into 4 parts but put together

Date: 21 September 1005
Chronological systems: Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar
day of the week

Dating formulae: Part A
ⲁ̇ⲡⲟ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲉ̇ⲧⲏ ⲯⲕ︤̄ⲃ︦ ⲙⲏⲛⲟⲥ ⲑ︤ⲱ︦ⲑ︥ ⲕ̄︤ⲇ̄︥

Part B
ⲏⲙⲉⲣⲁ ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍
Transcription: "(in the year) from the Martyrs 722, in the month of Thoth, (day) 24" (part A, ll. 15–16)
"on the Preparation Day (= Friday)" (part B, ll. 12–13)
Months: ⲑ︤ⲱ︦ⲑ︥
Weakdays: ⲏⲙⲉⲣⲁ ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲥ'ⲕ'
Feasts

Offices & titles: bishop of Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲉⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): A, l. 5
bishop (ⲉⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍): A, l. 14; B, l. 6

Toponyms & ethnonyms: Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): l. 5

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: neg. no. Fa.61/2.0094a (= I. Faras Greek 7, fig. 8)
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Khartoum Greek 2, pl. 2
Other editions: Marciniak, in: Michałowski 1962a, pp. 111–12, figs. 46, 48; I. Faras Greek 7, fig. 8

Other publications: Michałowski 1962b, pp. 231–4, pl. 77a, fig. 4; Michałowski 1962c, p. 115, fig. 3; Michałowski 1963a, p. 33; Michałowski 1963b, p. 240, n. 14; Anonymous 1963, p. 59; Leclant 1963, p. 188, fig. 12; Simpson 1963, pp. 313–14; Oates 1963, p. 162 (no. 1); Michałowski 1965a, pp. 49–63 (context), fig. 31; Jakobielski 1966c, p. 164; Žabkar 1967, p. 16; I. Faras Copt., pp. 143–7; Jakobielski 1975a, p. 326; Hagedorn 1976, p. 185; Krause 1978, pp. 153–64; Łajtar 1996c, p. 105 (no. 8); Łajtar 2001a, p. 333; CSBE(2), p. 84, n. 112, p. 316 (incorrect month date); Tsakos 2009b, p. 202 (no. 1); CSCN, table 47 on p. 337

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TrismegistosTM text 102627

Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: tomb east of cathedral, immured in east wall
Excavation no.: F 222/61-2 (inscr. inv. 63/I/61; neg. nos. Fa.61.423–Fa.61.425, Fa.61/2.0033, Fa.61/2.0091, Fa.61/2.0091a, Fa.61/2.0832)
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.: SNM 23379

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek/Coptic/Old Nubian
Content: epitaph of Iesou (II), bishop of Pachoras
Date: probably 4 June 1169
Notes: 'God of the spirits' type
date reckoned on the basis of the previous bishops' episcopacy; lunar day incorrect – 1 day later than Alexandrian cycle
I. Faras Greek gives F 226/61–2 as excavation no.

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 42; W: 30; Th: 6.5
Text dimensions: H: 37; W: 23
Object colour: grey
Text colour: lines painted red and white alternately
Lines: 24
Height of letters: 0.6-0.9

Description: rectangular slab, slightly broadening at top, ending with semi-circle
Decorative elements: aedicula-type decoration in relief: along side edges pillars with bases and capitals; at bottom relief representing vine; on top archivolt with row of globules
State of preservation: completely preserved

Date: probably 4 June 1169
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
lunar calendar

Dating formulae: ⲉ̇ⲡⲓ ⲧⲱ ⲙⲏⲛⲟⲥ ⲡⲁⲩ̇ⲛⲏ • ⲓ︦ • ⲟⲩⲛⲛⲁ • ⲇ︥̄
Transcription: "in the month of Payni, (day) 10, on the 4th (day) of the moon" (ll. 22–3)
Months: ⲡⲁⲩ̇ⲛⲏ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: bishop of Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲉ̇ⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲡⲁⲭoⲣⲁⲥ): l. 6; (ⲉ̇ⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲡⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍): l. 17

Toponyms & ethnonyms: Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲭⲟⲣⲁⲥ): l. 6; (ⲡⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍): l. 17

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: neg. no. Fa.61/2.0091 (= I. Faras Greek 9, fig. 10)
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Khartoum Greek 3, pl. 3
Other editions: Marciniak, in: Michałowski 1962a, pp. 113–17, figs. 48, 49; I. Faras Greek 9, fig. 10

Other publications: Michałowski 1962b, pp. 231–2, pl. 78a, fig. 4; Michałowski 1962c, p. 115, fig. 5; Michałowski 1963b, p. 242; Michałowski 1965a, pp. 49–63 (context); Michałowski 1967, pp. 96–7; Leclant 1963, p. 189, fig. 13; Oates 1963, p. 162 (no. 8); Jakobielski 1966c, pp. 169–70; Žabkar 1967, p. 16; I. Faras Copt., p. 165; Altheim – Stiehl 1971, pp. 500–3; Jakobielski 1975a, p. 326; Hagedorn 1976, p. 185; Bagnall – Worp 1986, passim, esp. p. 352 (no. 6); Łajtar 1996c, p. 105 (no. 9); CSBE(2), pp. 313–14 (no. 8); Satzinger 2004, p. 536

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Provenance: Faras (?)
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.: SNM 32141

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of Iesousinkouda, eparch (?), domestikos of Pachoras, nauarchos of Nobades
Date: 26 October 1102
Notes: I. Khartoum Greek 5 – 27 October

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 36.7; W: 18.5; Th: 8.2
Text dimensions: H: 25; W: 13.5
Object colour: grey
Text colour: traces of paint
Lines: 20
Height of letters: 0.6-1

Description: rectangular slab with recessed epigraphic field (last line located on bottom border)
Decorative elements: large Greek cross with 2 Latin crosses standing on its horizontal shoulder, one at each side; crosses placed in semicircular space, bordered by incised line
State of preservation: completely preserved

Date: 26 October 1102
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
Era of the Martyrs

Dating formulae: ⲫⲁⲫⲓ : ⲕⲑ : ⲁ̇ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲱⲓⲑ :
Transcription: "(in the month of) Phaophi, (day) 29, (in the year) from the Martyrs 819" (ll. 13–14)
Months: ⲫⲁⲫⲓ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: eparch (?) (ⲉⲝⲟⲩⲥⲓⲁ): ll. 7–8
domestikos of Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲇⲱⲙⲓⲥⲧⲓⲕⲟⲥ ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): ll. 8–10
nauarches of the Nobades (?) (ⲛⲁⲩⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲛⲟ̇): ll. 10–11

Toponyms & ethnonyms: (Church of) Gabriel (ⲅⲃⲗ): l. 7
Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): ll. 9–10
Nobades (?) (ⲛⲟ̇): l. 11
Phrim (= Ibrim) (ⲫⲣⲙ): l. 20
(Church of) Gabriel in Phrim (= Ibrim) (ⲅⲁⲃⲣⲓⲏⲗ ⲫⲣⲙ): l. 20

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: I. Khartoum Greek, pl. V
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Khartoum Greek 5, pl. 5
Other editions: Łajtar 1998b, pp. 73–80

Other publications: Łajtar – Van der Vliet 1998, pp. 49–50 (no. 10); CSBE(2), p. 86; Tsakos 2009b, pp. 202–3 (no. 7); CSCN, table 11 on p. 71; Richter 2013, p. 148

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TrismegistosTM text 102558

Provenance: Komangana
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cemetery 178, reused for closing doorway in grave 18, inscribed surface turned inwards and upside down; found together with DBMNT 514
Excavation no.: 178/18:1
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.: SNM 24618

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek/Old Nubian
Content: epitaph of Marturophoros, bishop, son of Joassi, son of Marianya
Date: 17 February 1159
Notes: near Debeira
'God of the spirits' type
I. Khartoum Greek 6 – 18 February; AM 875 was a leap year
last sentence in Old Nubian

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 44; W: 37; Th: 13
Text dimensions
Object colour: white
Text colour
Lines: 23
Height of letters: 0.5-2.6 (avarage 0.7-0.8)

Description: trapezoidal slab, epigraphic field surrounded on 3 sides (apart from bottom) by irregular raised border; line 1 written on border
Decorative elements
State of preservation: completely preserved

Date: 17 February 1159
Chronological systems: Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲱ̇ⲟ̇ⲉ̇ ⟦ ̣ ̣ ⟧ ⲗⲟ ⲙⲉⲭⲉⲓⲣⲁ ⲕ̄ⲅ̄ ⲗⲟ
Transcription: "(in the year) from the Martyrs 875, (in the month of) Mecheir, (day) 23" (l. 22)
Months: ⲙⲉⲭⲉⲓⲣ-ⲁ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: bishop (ⲉⲡⲓⲥⲕⲟⲡⲟⲥ): ll. 6–7, 20

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: I. Khartoum Greek, pl. VI
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Source: Hägg 1982, fig. on p. 60
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Khartoum Greek 6, pl. 6
Other editions: Holthoer – Salonen – Ziliacus 1964, pp. 19–22, fig. 2; Hägg 1982a, pp. 59–62, drawing on p. 60, pls. 47, 106

Other publications: Säve-Söderbergh 1964, pp. 37–9, fig. 9a; Leclant 1964, p. 372; Michałowski 1967, p. 96; Žabkar 1967, p. 16; Krause 1970, p. 84 = Krause, in: Altheim – Stiehl 1971, p. 529; Säve-Söderbergh 1970, pp. 238–9; Vantini 1970, pp. 19–20, 236–7; Säve-Söderbergh – Englund – Nordström 1981, p. 135; Säve-Söderbergh 1981, p. 50; Hägg 1982b, pp. 104–5; Łajtar 1994a, pp. 203–4; Browne 1996a, pp. 187–8; Łajtar 1996c, p. 106 (no. 19); CSBE(2), p. 86, n. 128; CSCN, table 11 on p. 71; Ruffini 2014a, p. 962

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Provenance: Ashkeit area
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: used as doorstep at Saqia 43
Excavation no.
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.: SNM 3727

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek/Old Nubian
Content: epitaph of woman Ikkir
Date: 6 August after 1084 before 1184
Notes: 'God of the spirits' type
one sentence in Old Nubian

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 50; W: 24; Th: 11
Text dimensions
Object colour: grey
Text colour
Lines: 27
Height of letters: 0.7-1.3

Description: rectangular slab; epigraphic field surrounded by raised border; line 1 inscribed on top border; uninscribed space at bottom
Decorative elements
State of preservation: text preserved completely, though stela broken at bottom

Date: 6 August after 1084 before 1184
Chronological systems: Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲱ︦[ ̣ ̣] • … ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲣⲉⲁ ⲓ̈ⲅ ⲗⲟ
Transcription: "(in the year) from the Martyrs 8.." (ll. 23–4)
"Mesore 13" (ll. 25–6)
Months: ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲣⲉ-ⲁ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms: Argini (ⲁⲣⲅⲓⲛⲓ): l. 23
(Church of) A...ti (in) Argini (ⲁ ̣ ̣ ̣ⲧⲓ · ⲁⲣⲅⲓⲛⲓ): ll. 22–23

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: I. Khartoum Greek, pl. VII
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Khartoum Greek 7, pl. 7
Other editions: Barns 1954, pp. 28–9, pl. 5b

Other publications: Žabkar 1967, p. 16; Łajtar 1993b, p. 103, with n. 12; Łajtar 1996c, p. 107 (no. 22); Łajtar – Van der Vliet 1998, pp. 50–1 (no. 12); CSBE(2), p. 85; Łajtar 2006b, p. 118 (no. 4)

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Provenance: Meinarti
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: not recorded
Excavation no.
Present location: Museum at el-Damer
Museum no.: SNM 3726

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of Joassi, eparch of Nobadia and choiakishshil, son of Sentikol
Date: 15 September 1161
Notes: 'God of the spirits' type
lunar day incorrect – 14 days later than Alexandrian cycle

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 59; W: 35; Th: 9
Text dimensions
Object colour: grey
Text colour: traces of red paint
Lines: 27
Height of letters: 0.7-2

Description: rectangular slab with recessed epigraphic field; line 1 written on top border
Decorative elements: at bottom cross flanked by monograms of Maria and Michael
State of preservation: completely preserved

Date: 15 September 1161
Chronological systems: Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar
lunar calendar

Dating formulae: ⲁ̇ⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲱ︤ⲟ̄ⲏ • ⲑⲱ︦ⲑ ⲙⲏⲛⲟⲥ • ⲓ︤ⲏ︥̄ • ⲥⲉⲗⲗⲉⲛⲏ • ⲏ̄ :
Transcription: "(in the year) from the Martyrs 878, in the month of Thoth, (day) 18, on the 8th moon (day)" (ll. 23–4)
Months: ⲑⲱ︦ⲑ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: eparch of Nobadia (ⲉ̇ⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⟦ ̣ ̣ ̣⟧ ⲛⲟⲡⲁ⸌ⲇ⸍): l. 25
choiakishshil (ⲕⲩⲁⲅⲓⲥⲩϣⲗ̄): l. 26

Toponyms & ethnonyms: Nobadia (ⲛⲟⲡⲁ⸌ⲇ⸍): l. 25

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: I. Khartoum Greek, pl. VIII
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Khartoum Greek 8, pl. 8
Other editions: Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, pp. 218–19; Barns 1954, pp. 26–7, pl. 5a

Other publications: Oates 1963, p. 162 (no. 7); Adams 1964, p. 248; Žabkar 1967, pp. 16–17; Bagnall – Worp 1986, passim (no. 4); Łajtar 1992a, pp. 124 (no. 5); Łajtar 1993c, p. 247; Shinnie 1996, pl. 32b; Łajtar 1996c, p. 107 (no. 21); Adams 2001, p. 99; Łajtar 2003, p. 72; CSBE(2), pp. 86, 313–14 (no. 6); Łajtar 2006b, pp. 114–15 (no. 1); Tsakos 2009b, p. 202 (no. 5)

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Provenance: Meinarti
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: not recorded
Excavation no.
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.: SNM 16

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of son of Mashshouda Isminna, choiakishshil
Date: 1 May 1084
Notes: 'God of the spirits' type
lunar day incorrect – 10 days later than Alexandrian cycle; Bagnall – Worp 1986 – 13 moon

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 56.5; W: 34.5; Th: 12
Text dimensions
Object colour: grey
Text colour
Lines: 27
Height of letters: 0.6-2.5

Description: roughly rectangular slab; epigraphic field surrounded by raised border; line 1 written on top border
Decorative elements
State of preservation: almost completely preserved - line 1 illegible

Date: 1 May 1084
Chronological systems: Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar
lunar calendar

Dating formulae: ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲱ ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲛ ⲙⲟⲛⲟⲥ ⲋ ⲥⲉⲗⲗⲉⲛⲏ ⲓ︦ⲃ︥̄
Transcription: "(in the year) from the Martyrs 800, in the month of Pachon, (day) 6, on the 12th moon (day)" (ll. 24–5)
Months: ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲛ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: choiakishshil (ⲭⲉⲓⲁⲕⲓϣϣⲓ): l. 26

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: I. Khartoum Greek, pl. IX
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Khartoum Greek 9, pl. 9
Other editions: SB 4 7432; Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, pp. 217–18; I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 14

Other publications: Crowfoot 1927, pp. 230–1 (no. 5), pl. 58; Oates 1963, p. 162 (no. 4); Tibiletti Bruno 1963, passim; Adams 1964, p. 248; Grumel 1965, p. 85 (no. 3); Žabkar 1967, pp. 16–17; Bagnall – Worp 1986, passim (no. 2); Łajtar 1992a, p. 123 (no. 1); Łajtar 1996c, p. 107 (no. 20); Adams 2003, pp. 71–2; CSBE(2), pp. 85, 313–14 (no. 3)

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Provenance: Meinarti
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cemetery, stray find
Excavation no.: 6-K-3/350
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.: SNM 18103

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: fragment of epitaph
Date: 1000–1299
Notes

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 22.5; W: 10; Th: 4
Text dimensions
Object colour: yellowish
Text colour
Lines: 7
Height of letters: 1-2

Description: right lower corner with raised borders forming epigraphic field
Decorative elements
State of preservation: right lower corner preserved

Date: 1000–1299
Chronological systems: Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: [---] ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁ⸌ⲣ⸍ⲧ … [--- ⲙⲉ]ⲥⲟⲩⲣⲉⲁ
Transcription: "(in the year) from the Martyrs [...]" (l. 3)
"[in the month of] Mesore [...]" (l. 5)
Months: ⲙⲉ]ⲥⲟⲩⲣⲉ-ⲁ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

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Latest edition: I. Khartoum Greek 11, pl. 11
Other editions

Other publications: Adams 2001, p. 99, pl. 35d, e (6) (in caption wrongly identified as inv. no. 261); Adams 2002, pl. 20c (6) (in caption wrongly identified as inv. no. 27); Adams 2003, p. 72, pl. 17b (5) (in captions wrongly identified with inv. no. 27)

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Provenance: Kor
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: not recorded
Excavation no.
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.: SNM 5588

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of Joasi, son of Shi...a
Date: 2 June 1163
Notes: lunar day incorrect – 12 days earlier than Alexandrian cycle

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 55.5; W: 26.5; Th: 11.5
Text dimensions
Object colour: grey
Text colour
Lines: 26
Height of letters

Description: rectangular slab; epigraphic field surrounded by raised border at top and right, and incised line at bottom; large space uninscribed at bottom
Decorative elements
State of preservation: almost completely preserved - upper left corner chipped out; traces of soot in the middle of stone

Date: 2 June 1163
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
Era of the Martyrs
lunar calendar

Dating formulae: ⲡⲁⲩⲛⲏ ⲙⲏⲛⲟⲥ ⲏⲙⲉⲣⲁ ⲏ̄ ⲥⲉⲗⲗⲉⲛⲏ ⲓ︦ ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲱ̄︤ⲟ︦ⲑ̣̄︥
Transcription: "in the month of Payni, day 8, on the 10th moon (day), (in the year) from the Martyrs 879 (?)" (ll. 24–6)
Months: ⲡⲁⲩⲛⲏ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: I. Khartoum Greek, pl. XII
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Latest edition: I. Khartoum Greek 12, pl. 12
Other editions: Barns 1954, pp. 28, 31

Other publications: Bagnall – Worp 1986, passim (no. 5); Łajtar 1996c, p. 107 (no. 23); CSBE(2), p. 86, n. 130, pp. 313–14 (no. 7)

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Provenance: el-Khandaq (reportedly)
Region: Makuria
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.
Present location: Kerma Museum
Museum no.: SNM 21

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of Ioannes, monk of the monastery of .enganarti
Date: 700–999
Notes

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 34; W: 27; Th: 9
Text dimensions
Object colour: grey
Text colour
Lines: 12
Height of letters: 1.6-2.7

Description: rectangular plaque; in left right corner conical hole - probably re-used as basis for door-jamb
Decorative elements
State of preservation: surface chipped out at several spots

Date: 700–999
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ⲙⲏⲛⲏ ⲧⲩⲃ[ⲓ] ⲓ̣︦ⲉ︥̄
Transcription: "in the month of Tybi, (day) 15" (l. 7)
Months: ⲧⲩⲃ[ⲓ]
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: monk of (monastery of) .enganarti (ⲙⲟⲛ [.]ⲉⲛⲅⲁⲛⲁⲣⲧⲓ): l. 6

Toponyms & ethnonyms: (monastery of) [.]enganarti ([.]ⲉⲛⲅⲁⲛⲁⲣⲧⲓ): l. 6

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: I. Khartoum Greek, pl. XIV
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Latest edition: I. Khartoum Greek 15, pl. 14
Other editions: Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, pp. 242–3

Other publications: Žabkar 1967, p. 17; Tsakos 2009b, p. 202 (no. 2)

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Provenance: Hambukol
Region: Makuria
Findspot: church on N kom, in entry to haikal, possibly above tomb of Mariankouda
Excavation no.
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.: SNM 30149

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of Mariankouda, tetrarch of Makuria; King Georgios mentioned
Date: 5 June 887
Notes

Material: marble
Object dimensions: dia: c. 66
Text dimensions
Object colour: white
Text colour
Lines: 29
Height of letters: 1.1-1.6

Description: round offering tray; epigraphic field surrounded by raised border
Decorative elements
State of preservation: found in 9 pieces; two small pieces of epigraphic field lacking; bottom border not preserved

Date: 5 June 887
Chronological systems: Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar
king's occurrence

Dating formulae: ⲉⲛ ⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲡⲁⲩⲛⲓ ⲓ︦ⲁ︥̄ : ⲙⲉⲛ ⲉ[ⲧⲟⲩ]ⲥ ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣⲧⲩⲣⲱⲛ ⲭ̄︤ⲅ︥̄
Transcription: "in the month of Payni, (day) 11, in the year from the Martyrs 603" (l. 15)
Months: ⲡⲁⲩⲛⲓ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: tetrarch of Makuria (ⲧⲉⲧⲣⲁⲣⲭⲏⲥ ⲧⲏⲥ ⲙⲁⲕⲟⲩⲣⲓⲁⲥ ⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): ll. 14–15
king (ⲃⲁⲥⲓⲗⲉⲱⲥ): l. 18
ceasar (ⲧⲟⲛ ⲕⲁⲓⲥⲁⲣⲁ): l. 19

Toponyms & ethnonyms: Makuria (ⲧⲏⲥ ⲙⲁⲕⲟⲩⲣⲓⲁⲥ ⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): ll. 14–15

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: I. Khartoum Greek, pl. XVII
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Latest edition: I. Khartoum Greek 18, pl. 17
Other editions

Other publications: Leclant – Clerc 1998, p. 422; Anderson 1999, p. 74, pl. 36; Catalogue London 2004, p. 307 (no. 318); CSBE(2), p. 82; Brakmann 2006, pp. 299, 316; Tsakos 2009b, p. 202 (no. 4); Hägg 2010a, pp. 620–1; van der Vliet 2011a, p. 207; CSCN, p. 68; Godlewski 2014, p. 71; Łajtar 2014b, n. 1 on p. 221

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