Text 3
- 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
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- 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
- Source
- neg. no. Fa.61/2.0091 (= I. Faras Greek 9, fig. 10)
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- 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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