Text 540
- Provenance
- Sai
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- rocks on E bank of Nile
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Sai, in situ
- Museum no.
- Medium
- rock
- Technique
- incised (graffito)
- Type of text
- commemorative inscription
- Language
- Greek/Old Nubian
- Content
- inscription mentioning high flood of the Nile; king Stephanos and bishop Iesou of Sai appearing
- Date
- before 1027–before 1057
- Notes
- dated to 11th cent., provided that Bishop Iesu is identical with Bishop Iesou of Sai from DBMNT 49
- Material
- stone
- Object dimensions
- Text dimensions
- not recorded
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 2
- Height of letters
- Description
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- Date
- before 1027–before 1057
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
king's occurrence
- Dating formulae
- ⲥⲧⲉⲫⲁⲛⲟⲥ ⲃ̄︤ⲗ︦ⲥ̄︥ … ⲑⲱⲑ̣ ⲗⲱ ·
- Transcription
- "(when) Stephanos was king, Abba Iesou was bishop of Sai, on [.] Thoth" (ll. 1–2)
- Months
- ⲑⲱⲑ̣
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- king (ⲃ︦ⲗ︦ⲥ︦): l. 1
abba (ⲁ︦ⲃ︦): l. 1
bishop of Sai (ⲉⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲍⲁⲏ): l. 1
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Sai (ⲍⲁⲏ): l. 1
- Source
- Boyaval 1976b, pl. 1a
- Image
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- Source
- Sayce 1910, pl. XLI, 6
- Image
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- Latest edition
- SEG 51 2203
- Other editions
- Sayce 1910, pp. 266–7 (no. 6), pl. 41.6; SB 1 3897; Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 239 (no. 2); Boyaval 1976b, p. 42, pl. 1a; SB 14 11576; SEG 26 1806; Łajtar 2001b, pp. 62–4; SB 26 16821
- Other publications
- Browne 2002a, p. 194; Hafsaas-Tsakos – Tsakos 2012, p. 86; Werner 2013, p. 108, with n. 18; Łajtar 2014b, n. 24 on p. 226
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