Text 45
- Provenance
- Meinarti
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- not recorded
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 14 (old)
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek/Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of woman Michaelikol, daughter of Ioannes, priest
- Date
- 11 December 1037
- Notes
- l. 1 and last 3 lines in Greek (final prayer)
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 47; W: 36; Th: 4.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- grey
- Text colour
- traces of dark paint
- Lines
- 26
- Height of letters
- 0.5-1
- Description
- rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by raised border
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- completely preserved
- Date
- 11 December 1037
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
Era of the Martyrs
- Dating formulae
- ⲛ̇ⲥⲟⲩ ⲓ︦ⲉ︥̄ • ⲙ̇ⲡⲉⲃⲟⲧ • ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕ • ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲯⲛ︦ⲇ︥
- Transcription
- "on day 15 of the month of Choiak, (in the year) from the Martyrs 754" (ll. 8–9)
- Months
- ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- priest (ⲡⲉⲡ︦ⲣ︦ⲉ︦ⲥ︦): l. 7
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Argini (ⲁⲣⲅⲓⲛⲏ): l. 8
(Church of) Michael in Argini (ⲙⲓⲭⲁⲏⲗ ⲛⲁⲣⲅⲓⲛⲏ): l. 8
- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Copt. 18, pl. 12
- Other editions
- Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, pp. 219–20
- Other publications
- Griffith 1913, pp. 128, 130; Junker 1925b, p. 116; Adams 1964, p. 248; Krause 1975, p. 76, n. 9; MacCoull – Worp 1990, p. 404; Łajtar – Van der Vliet 1998, pp. 36-43, 52 (no. 14); Adams 2001, p. 99; Adams 2003, pp. 70–1; CSBE(2), p. 85; Tsakos 2011b, p. 168; Richter 2013, p. 151
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