DBMNT

Provenance: Dongola
Region: Makuria
Findspot: Church of Granite Columns, chapel adjoining baptistery from east, buried in pavement
Excavation no.: D.42/67-68
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.: SNM 23063

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of Ioannes, protomeizoteros and eparch of Gadera (?); king Zacharias mentioned
Date: 14 December 883
Notes: 'God of the spirits' type (3rd oldest attestation)
I. Khartoum Greek 21 – 10 December; 14 December, because AM 600 after the leap year

Description: lower part of rectangular slab, originally probably twice as high
Decorative elements
State of preservation: only lower part preserved, but in very good condition

Date: 14 December 883
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
Era of the Martyrs
king's occurrence

Dating formulae: ⲉⲛ ⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲭ • ⲓ︦ⲍ︥̄ • ⲙⲉⲛ ⲉⲧⲟⲩ ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣⲧⲩⲣⲱⲛ ⲭ̄
Transcription: "in the month Choiak, (day) 17, in the year from the Martyrs 600" (ll. 13–14)
Months: ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲭ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: eparch of Gadera (?) (ⲉⲡⲁⲣⲭⲟⲥ ⲧⲱⲛ ⲅⲁⲇⲏⲣⲱⲛ): l. 12
protomeizoteros (ⲡⲣⲱⲧⲟⲙⲉⲓⲍⲱⲧⲉⲣⲟⲥ): ll. 12–13
Augustus (= king?) (ⲁⲩⲅⲟⲩⲥⲧⲟⲩ): l. 13

Other publications: Jakobielski – Krzyżaniak 1967/8, p. 163, pls. 32a, 33; Leclant 1968, p. 123; Leclant 1969, p. 294, pl. 49 (70); Dzierżykray-Rogalski – Jakobielski 1975a, pp. 44–5, drawing on p. 48; Munro-Hay 1982/3, pp. 106–7; Hägg 1990, pp. 159, 162; Gartkiewicz 1990, pp. 258–61, fig. 150; Łajtar 1996c, p. 107, no. 30; Jakobielski 2001b, p. 30; CSBE(2), p. 82; CSCN, p. 68, table 11 on p. 71; Vantini 2009, p. 105 + fig; Godlewski 2013a, p. 57; Łajtar 2014b, p. 227; Berkes 2017, p. 117, table on p. 119

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