Text 44
- Provenance
- Debeira West
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- church, lying in centre of haikal
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 3990
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek/Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of Petrou, deacon, son of abba Georgiou, bishop of Kourte
- Date
- 1 July 1029
- Notes
- ll. 1, 19–25 in Greek (final prayer)
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 55; W: 37; Th: 12
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- grey
- Text colour
- Lines
- 27
- Height of letters
- 1.5-2
- Description
- rectangular block; the bottom side left unfinished; epigraphic field within low embossed frame
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete; text heavily worn
- Date
- 1 July 1029
- Chronological systems
- Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲛ̇ⲥⲟⲩ ⲍ̄ ⲙ̇ⲡⲉⲃⲟⲧ ⲉ̣ⲡ̣ⲏ̣ⲫ̣ ⲁ̣ⲡ̣ⲟ̣ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲯⲙ︦ⲉ︥̄
- Transcription
- "on day 7 of the month of Epeiph, (in the year) from the Martyrs 745" (ll. 7–8)
- Months
- ⲉ̣ⲡ̣ⲏ̣ⲫ̣
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- deacon (ⲡⲇⲓⲁⲕⲟⲛⲟⲥ): l. 6; (ⲇⲓⲁⲕⲟⲛⲟⲩ): l. 22
abba (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): l. 7
bishop of Kourte (ⲡⲉⲡⲓⲥⲕⲟⲡⲟⲥ ⲛⲕⲟⲩⲣⲧⲉ): l. 7
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Kourte (ⲕⲟⲩⲣⲧⲉ): l. 7
- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Copt. 17, pl. 12
- Other editions
- Crum, in: Mileham 1910, pp. 19, 21, pl. 7; Junker 1925b, p. 133; Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, pp. 206–9; Kosack 1974, p. 326 (no. 100); Phougias 1982, pp. 159–62
- Other publications
- DACL, col. 2882–3; Žabkar 1967, p. 16 (labelled 'Serra West'); Krause 1975, p. 76, n. 9; Shinnie – Shinnie 1978, p. 17; MacCoull – Worp 1990, p. 403; MacCoull – Worp 1995, p. 159; Frend 1996, pp. 153–4; Richter 1999, pp. 301–2; CSBE(2), p. 84; Tsakos 2009b, p. 201 (no. 2); Tsakos 2011b, p. 168; Richter 2013, p. 151
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