Text 42
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- Griffith's cemetery 4, in remains of superstructure of tomb 72
- Excavation no.
- 4/72
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 7884
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of unidentified woman
- Date
- 600–899
- Notes
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 23; W: 18; Th: c. 2
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- white
- Text colour
- traces of red
- Lines
- 14
- Height of letters
- c. 1
- Description
- rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by incised lines
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- upper left corner lacking; text almost completely illegible
- Date
- 600–899
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- [ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣] ⲥ̣ⲟⲩ ϫⲟ[ⲩⲧ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ⲙⲙⲉ]ⲭⲓⲣ
- Transcription
- "day twenty-[...] of (the month of) Mecheir" (ll. 4–5)
- Months
- ⲙⲉ]ⲭⲓⲣ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Copt. 14, pl. 10
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Griffith 1927, p. 75
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