Text 36
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- tomb east of cathedral, immured in east wall
- Excavation no.
- F 221/61-2 (neg. nos. Fa.61.424, Fa.61.426, Fa.61/2.0096, Fa.61/2.0096a)
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 63/1/57
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek/Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of Georgiou, bishop of Pachoras
- Date
- 14 August 1097
- Notes
- ll. 13–15 in Greek (years of life)
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 52; W: 37; Th: 9
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- greyish-brown
- Text colour
- Lines
- 17
- Height of letters
- c. 1.5
- Description
- rectangular slab; roughly finished at bottom; epigraphic field framed from top and sides by raised border in form of aedicula
- Decorative elements
- aedicula-type decoration in high relief with 2 columns carrying lintel; upon lintel conch within arch; on top of columns incised crosses
- State of preservation
- complete
- Date
- 14 August 1097
- Chronological systems
- Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲛⲥⲟⲩ ⲙⲡⲉⲃ<ⲟ>ⲧ ⲙ̄ⲉⲥⲟⲣⲏ ⲕ̄︤ⲁ̄︥ ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲱ︦ⲓ︦ⲅ︥̄
- Transcription
- "on day 21 of the month of Mesore, (in the year) from the Martyrs 813" (ll. 8–10)
- Months
- ⲙ̄ⲉⲥⲟⲣⲏ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- abba (ⲁ︦ⲃ︦): l. 8
bishop of Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲉⲡⲓ̈ⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲡⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍): l. 8
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍): l. 8
- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Copt. 5, pl. 4
- Other editions
- Jakobielski, in: Michałowski 1962a, pp. 117–18, figs. 48, 50; I. Faras Copt., pp. 154–7, fig. 47; Myszor – Szczudłowska 1974, pp. 42–3, reprinted: Dembska –Myszor 1998, pp. 72–3
- Other publications
- (selection) Michałowski 1962b, p. 232, pl. 78b; Michałowski 1962c, pp. 115, fig. 6; Michałowski 1965a, pp. 49–63 (context); I. Faras Greek, p. 58; Krause 1975, p. 76, n. 9; Dzierżykray-Rogalski 1985, pp. 35–8; MacCoull – Worp 1990, p. 405; Richter 1999, p. 299; CSBE(2), p. 85; Richter 2013, pp. 146, 151
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