Text 40
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- Griffith's cemetery 4, W end of tomb 4.8
- Excavation no.
- 4/8/3
- Present location
- Nyala Museum
- Museum no.
- SNM 4500
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of man Orna
- Date
- probably 800–899
- Notes
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 23.5; W: 18; Th: 5.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- grey
- Text colour
- Lines
- 11
- Height of letters
- c. 1.5
- Description
- roughly rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by incised line; irregular ruling
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete but text worn away in upper part
- Date
- probably 800–899
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲛ̄ⲥⲟⲩ : ⲓ︦ⲅ︥̄ ⲙ̄ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲩⲣⲏ
- Transcription
- "on day 13 of (the month of) Mesore" (ll. 9–10)
- Months
- ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲩⲣⲏ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- photo by W. Godlewski
- Image
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- Source
- Griffith 1927, pl. 61.26
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Copt. 11, pl. 8
- Other editions
- Griffith 1927, pp. 70, 80 (no. 24), pl. 61.26
- Other publications
- Monneret de VIllard 1935–57: 1, p. 200; Tsakos 2009b, p. 201 (no. 4)
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