Text 4
- Provenance
- Faras (?)
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- unknown
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 32141
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of Iesousinkouda, eparch (?), domestikos of Pachoras, nauarchos of Nobades
- Date
- 26 October 1102
- Notes
- I. Khartoum Greek 5 – 27 October
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 36.7; W: 18.5; Th: 8.2
- Text dimensions
- H: 25; W: 13.5
- Object colour
- grey
- Text colour
- traces of paint
- Lines
- 20
- Height of letters
- 0.6-1
- Description
- rectangular slab with recessed epigraphic field (last line located on bottom border)
- Decorative elements
- large Greek cross with 2 Latin crosses standing on its horizontal shoulder, one at each side; crosses placed in semicircular space, bordered by incised line
- State of preservation
- completely preserved
- Date
- 26 October 1102
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
Era of the Martyrs
- Dating formulae
- ⲫⲁⲫⲓ : ⲕⲑ : ⲁ̇ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲱⲓⲑ :
- Transcription
- "(in the month of) Phaophi, (day) 29, (in the year) from the Martyrs 819" (ll. 13–14)
- Months
- ⲫⲁⲫⲓ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- eparch (?) (ⲉⲝⲟⲩⲥⲓⲁ): ll. 7–8
domestikos of Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲇⲱⲙⲓⲥⲧⲓⲕⲟⲥ ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): ll. 8–10
nauarches of the Nobades (?) (ⲛⲁⲩⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲛⲟ̇): ll. 10–11
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- (Church of) Gabriel (ⲅⲃⲗ): l. 7
Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): ll. 9–10
Nobades (?) (ⲛⲟ̇): l. 11
Phrim (= Ibrim) (ⲫⲣⲙ): l. 20
(Church of) Gabriel in Phrim (= Ibrim) (ⲅⲁⲃⲣⲓⲏⲗ ⲫⲣⲙ): l. 20
- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Greek 5, pl. 5
- Other editions
- Łajtar 1998b, pp. 73–80
- Other publications
- Łajtar – Van der Vliet 1998, pp. 49–50 (no. 10); CSBE(2), p. 86; Tsakos 2009b, pp. 202–3 (no. 7); CSCN, table 11 on p. 71; Richter 2013, p. 148
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