Text 14
- Provenance
- Dongola
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Church of Granite Columns, inserted in floor, 40 cm west of pier P 16, 65 cm south of tombstone of Stephanos
- Excavation no.
- D.14/65-6 (inscr. inv. 10/65-6)
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 23065
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of Kel, daughter of Osk..
- Date
- 5 September 785
- Notes
- 'God of the spirits' type (oldest attestation)
the oldest attestation of the Martyrs Era
5 September 785 fell on Monday
- Material
- marble
- Object dimensions
- H: 35; W: 34.5; Th: 5
- Text dimensions
- H: 31; W: 28
- Object colour
- white with grey-blue stripes
- Text colour
- Lines
- 24
- Height of letters
- c. 0.7
- Description
- square plaque
- Decorative elements
- inscription itself written in form of Greek cross; additional prayer written between arms of cross
- State of preservation
- surface much worn, but text completely legible
- Date
- 5 September 785
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
Era of the Martyrs
day of the week
- Dating formulae
- • ⲁⲡⲟ ⳥ ⲫ̄ⲃ︥̄ ⲟⲩⲥⲏⲥ ⲑ︤ⲱ︥︦ⲑ︥ ⲟⲅⲇⲟⲏ ⲏⲙⲉⲣⲁ ⲡⲉⲙⲡⲧⲏ
- Transcription
- "(in the year) from the Martyrs 502, when it is the eight day of (the month of) Thoth, on the fifth day (of the week) (= Thursday)" (ll. 20–2)
- Months
- ⲑ︤ⲱ︥︦ⲑ︥
- Weakdays
- ⲏⲙⲉⲣⲁ ⲡⲉⲙⲡⲧⲏ
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- SEG 53 2019
- Other editions
- Łajtar 1997a, pp. 117–18, no. 1; I. Khartoum Greek 20, pl. 19
- Other publications
- Jakobielski – Ostrasz 1967/8, p. 133 (a), pl. 25; MacCoull – Worp 1990, p. 383; Łajtar 1996c, p. 107, no. 28; Jakobielski 2001b, p. 30; CSBE(2), p. 82, n. 96, p. 316; Brakmann 2006, p. 305; CSCN, pp. 65–6, 77, 80, table 47 on p. 337, p. 339; Łajtar 2014b, p. 224
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