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- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- Griffith's 'Meroitic cemetery', grave 1070; SAS-site no. 24-E-27, N of citadel
- Excavation no.
- 1/1070
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 5200
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of apa Epiphanios, priest
- Date
- 900–1099
- Notes
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 42; W: 26; Th: 6
- Text dimensions
- H: 15; W: 21
- Object colour
- blue-grey
- Text colour
- Lines
- 7
- Height of letters
- 1.5-2
- Description
- rectangular slab, rounded at top; epigraphic field separated from upper part by incised line; only third part of stone inscribed
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete but severely damaged and worn
- Date
- 900–1099
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲛⲥ̣[ⲟ]ⲩ ⲓ … ⲙⲡ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲛ
- Transcription
- "on day 10 [---] of (the month of) Pachon" (ll. 5–7)
- Months
- ⲙⲡ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲛ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- apa (ⲁⲡⲁ): l. 4
priest (ⲡ̣ⲉⲡⲣ̣⸌ⲉ⸍): l. 5
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- photo by W. Godlewski
- Image
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- Source
- Griffith 1927, pl. 51.18
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Copt. 9, pl. 6
- Other editions
- Griffith 1927, p. 63, pl. 51.18
- Other publications
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