Text 2
- 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
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- 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
- Source
- neg. no. Fa.61/2.0094a (= I. Faras Greek 7, fig. 8)
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- 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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