Text 16
- Provenance
- Dongola
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- kom P, house PCH 1
- Excavation no.
- D.22/89
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 27595
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of Petros, eparch of Nobadia
- Date
- 7 January 798
- Notes
- 'God of the spirits' type (second oldest attestation)
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 39.6; W: 26.2; Th: 11.6
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- white
- Text colour
- Lines
- 15
- Height of letters
- c. 1.5
- Description
- rectangular slab; epigraphic field surrounded by incised lines; ruling
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- almost completely preserved, apart from 2 small lacunas in lowermost line and a few minor lackings in central part
- Date
- 7 January 798
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
indiction
Era of Diocletian
- Dating formulae
- ⲙ⸌ⲏ⸍ ⲧⲩⲃⲓ ⲓⲃ • ⲓⲛ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲋ • ⲉⲧⲟⲩⲥ ⲁⲡⲟ ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲫ̄ⲓ︦ⲇ︥ :
- Transcription
- "in the month of Tybi, (day) 12, in the 6th indiction, in the year from Diocletian 514" (ll. 7–8)
- Months
- ⲧⲩⲃⲓ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- eparch of Nobadia (ⲉⲡⲁ[ⲣ]ⲭⲟⲥ ⲧⲏⲥ ⲧⲱⲛ ⲛ[ⲟⲃⲁ]ⲇⲱⲛ ⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): ll. 5–7
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Nobadia (ⲧⲏⲥ ⲧⲱⲛ ⲛ[ⲟⲃⲁ]ⲇⲱⲛ ⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): ll. 5–7
Nobades (ⲧⲱⲛ ⲛ[ⲟⲃⲁ]ⲇⲱⲛ): l. 6
- Latest edition
- SEG 53 2020
- Other editions
- Łajtar 1991, pp. 157–9 (Ann. Epigr. 1995, 1618); Łajtar 1997a, pp. 122–3, no. 6; I. Khartoum Greek 23, pl. 22
- Other publications
- Leclant – Clerc 1990, p. 423; Godlewski 1991, pp. 85–6; Hägg 1998, p. 115; Jakobielski 2001b, p. 40; Welsby 2002, p. 62; Catalogue London 2004, pp. 216–7, no. 186; CSBE(2), p. 76, n. 48; Godlewski 2013a, fig. on p. 116
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