Text 35
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- tomb east of cathedral, immured in wall
- Excavation no.
- F 223/61-2 (neg. nos. Fa.61.428, Fa.61/2.0092, Fa.61/2.0092a)
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 63/1/54
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of Petrou (II), bishop of Pachoras
- Date
- 22 May 1062
- Notes
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 53; W: 30.5; Th: 7
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- pink
- Text colour
- Lines
- 19
- Height of letters
- 1.5-2
- Description
- rectangular slab; bottom roughly dressed; re-used older architectonic element (probably lintel)
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- completely preserved but for some minor scratches and holes
- Date
- 22 May 1062
- Chronological systems
- Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲛ̇ⲥⲟⲩ ⲕ̄︤ⲍ︥ : ⲙ̇ⲡⲉⲃⲟⲧ ⲡⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍ : ⲁ̇ⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲯⲟ̄︤ⲏ︥̄ :
- Transcription
- "on day 27 of the month Pachon, (in the year) from the Martyrs 778" (ll. 9–11)
- Months
- ⲡⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- abba (ⲁ︦ⲃ︦): l. 8
bishop of Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲉⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲡⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍): l. 9
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍): l. 9
- Source
- neg. no. Fa.61/2.0092 (= I. Faras Copt., fig. 45)
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Copt. 4, pl. 3
- Other editions
- Jakobielski, in: Michałowski 1962a, pp. 112–13, figs. 47–8; I. Faras Copt., pp. 149–52, fig. 45
- Other publications
- (selection) Michałowski 1962b, p. 231, pl. 77b; Michałowski 1962c, pp. 115, fig. 4; Michałowski 1963a, p. 33; Anonymous 1963, p. 59; Simpson 1963, pp. 313–14; Michałowski 1965a, pp. 49–63 (context); I. Faras Greek, p. 57; Dzierżykray-Rogalski 1985, pp. 35–8; MacCoull – Worp 1990, p. 404; CSBE(2), p. 85; Richter 2013, p. 146
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