Text 31

Provenance
Soba
Region
Alwa
Findspot
building D, room m18
Excavation no.
Soba East 1985/86
Present location
Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.
SNM 31251
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Greek
Content
epitaph of King Dauid
Date
800–999
Notes
'God of the spirits' type
Material
marble
Object dimensions
 
Text dimensions
H: 29; W: 38
Object colour
white, covered with grey-yellow patina
Text colour
 
Lines
21
Height of letters
0.7-1
Description
slab of irregular shape, originally probably rectangular
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
edges chipped out; surface worn out very much; greatly rubbed in central part
Date
800–999
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
day of the week
king's occurrence
Dating formulae
ⲉⲛ ⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲁⲑⲩⲣ : ⲃ̄ : ⲏ̇ⲙⲉⲣⲁ ⲡⲉⲙⲡⲧⲏ ⲟⲩⲥⲏⲥ :
Transcription
"in the month of Athyr, (day) 2, when it is the fifth day (= Thursday)" (ll. 19–20)
Months
ⲁⲑⲩⲣ
Weakdays
ⲏ̇ⲙⲉⲣⲁ ⲡⲉⲙⲡⲧⲏ
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
king (ⲃ︦ⲗ︦ⲥ︦): l. 5
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
I. Khartoum Greek, pl. LXXVI
Image
Image not available
Source
Jakobielski 1991, fig. 153
Image
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Latest edition
I. Khartoum Greek 79, pl. 76
Other editions
Jakobielski 1991, pp. 274–6, fig. 153, pl. 47
Other publications
Łajtar 1996c, p. 108 (no. 36); Hägg 1998, p. 114; Welsby 2002, pp. 62, 240, fig. 97; Catalogue London 2004, p. 230 (no. 197); CSBE(2), p. 317; Brakmann 2006, pp. 300, 304; Tsakos 2009b, p. 202 (no. 4); Łajtar 2014b, n. 1 on p. 221
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