Text 5
- Provenance
- Komangana
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- cemetery 178, reused for closing doorway in grave 18, inscribed surface turned inwards and upside down; found together with DBMNT 514
- Excavation no.
- 178/18:1
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 24618
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek/Old Nubian
- Content
- epitaph of Marturophoros, bishop, son of Joassi, son of Marianya
- Date
- 17 February 1159
- Notes
- near Debeira
'God of the spirits' type
I. Khartoum Greek 6 – 18 February; AM 875 was a leap year
last sentence in Old Nubian
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 44; W: 37; Th: 13
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- white
- Text colour
- Lines
- 23
- Height of letters
- 0.5-2.6 (avarage 0.7-0.8)
- Description
- trapezoidal slab, epigraphic field surrounded on 3 sides (apart from bottom) by irregular raised border; line 1 written on border
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- completely preserved
- Date
- 17 February 1159
- Chronological systems
- Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲱ̇ⲟ̇ⲉ̇ ⟦ ̣ ̣ ⟧ ⲗⲟ ⲙⲉⲭⲉⲓⲣⲁ ⲕ̄ⲅ̄ ⲗⲟ
- Transcription
- "(in the year) from the Martyrs 875, (in the month of) Mecheir, (day) 23" (l. 22)
- Months
- ⲙⲉⲭⲉⲓⲣ-ⲁ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- bishop (ⲉⲡⲓⲥⲕⲟⲡⲟⲥ): ll. 6–7, 20
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- I. Khartoum Greek, pl. VI
- Image
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- Source
- Hägg 1982, fig. on p. 60
- Image
-
- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Greek 6, pl. 6
- Other editions
- Holthoer – Salonen – Ziliacus 1964, pp. 19–22, fig. 2; Hägg 1982a, pp. 59–62, drawing on p. 60, pls. 47, 106
- Other publications
- Säve-Söderbergh 1964, pp. 37–9, fig. 9a; Leclant 1964, p. 372; Michałowski 1967, p. 96; Žabkar 1967, p. 16; Krause 1970, p. 84 = Krause, in: Altheim – Stiehl 1971, p. 529; Säve-Söderbergh 1970, pp. 238–9; Vantini 1970, pp. 19–20, 236–7; Säve-Söderbergh – Englund – Nordström 1981, p. 135; Säve-Söderbergh 1981, p. 50; Hägg 1982b, pp. 104–5; Łajtar 1994a, pp. 203–4; Browne 1996a, pp. 187–8; Łajtar 1996c, p. 106 (no. 19); CSBE(2), p. 86, n. 128; CSCN, table 11 on p. 71; Ruffini 2014a, p. 962
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