Text 49
- Provenance
- Sai
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- unknown, perhaps cathedral
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Ali Dinar Museum, el-Fashir
- Museum no.
- SNM 15 (old)
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of Iesou, bishop of Sai
- Date
- 15 May 1054
- Notes
- weekday correct
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 34; W: 27
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 24
- Height of letters
- Description
- rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by incised line on upper, left and right sides
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete; last line partly worn away
- Date
- 15 May 1054
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
day of the week
Era of Diocletian
- Dating formulae
- ⲛⲥⲟⲩ ϫⲟⲩⲱⲧ ⲙⲡⲉⲃⲟⲧ ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲛⲓ ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲛ̇ⲧⲕⲩⲣⲓⲁⲕⲏ ⲛ̇ⲟⲩⲛⲟⲩ ⲇⲉ ⲛ̇ϫⲡⲥⲟ
ⲁⲡ [ⲇ]ⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲉⲧⲏ ⲯ̄︤ⲟ︦ - Transcription
- "on day twenty of the month of Pachon, the day of Sunday, at the sixth hour" (ll. 12–14)
"years from Diocletian 770" (ll. 22–23) - Months
- ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲛⲓ
- Weakdays
- ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲛ̇ⲧⲕⲩⲣⲓⲁⲕⲏ
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- abba (ⲁ︦ⲃ︦): l. 10
bishop of Sai (ⲡⲉⲡⲓⲥⲕⲟⲡⲟⲥ ⲍⲁⲏ): ll. 10–11
monk of (monastery of) Ittide (ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲁⲭⲟⲥ ⲛⲉⲓⲧⲧⲇⲏ): l. 11
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Sai (ⲍⲁⲏ): l. 11
(monastery of) Ittide (ⲉⲓⲧⲧⲇⲏ): l. 11
- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Copt. 27, pl. 20
- Other editions
- Steindorff 1907–8, pp. 71–4; Kraus 1930, pp. 125–7; SB Kopt. 1 429
- Other publications
- Budge 1907, pp. 464–6, fig. on p. 465; DACL 2/3, col. 2882; Kaufmann 1917, pp. 252–3, fig. 175; Junker 1925b, passim; Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 238; MacCoull – Worp 1990, p. 399; Łajtar 2001b, p. 64; Łajtar 2006a, p. 93; CSBE(2), p. 81, n. 89, p. 316; Tsakos 2009b, p. 201; CSCN, table 47 on p. 337; Tsakos 2011–12, p. 299 (no. 2); Richter 2013, p. 151; Łajtar 2014b, n. 24 on p. 226
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