DBMNT

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek/Old Nubian
Content: epitaph of King Georgios
Date: 17 September 1157
Notes: 'God of the spirits' type
bilingual text - Greek on the rim, Old Nubian inside circle; Griffith 1928b – AD 1158; corrected by Bagnall – Worp 1986; date in Old Nubian part only; 17 September 1157 fell on Tuesday; lunar day incorrect – 5 days earlier than Alexandrian cycle

Description: round offering tray; double raised edge bearing Greek text, Old Nubian in central part
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete

Date: 17 September 1157
Chronological systems: Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar
day of the week
lunar calendar
king's occurrence

Dating formulae: ⲧⲁⲡⲟⲧⲛ̄ ⲥⲟⲩⲁ̇ⲉⲓⲗⲁ ⲅⲓⲛⲕⲉⲣⲟⲩⲉⲓⲧⲁ ⲁ̇ⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣⲧⲩⲣⲓⲟⲛⲛ̣ⲁ̣̇ ⲱ̄ⲕ︦ⲃ̄︥ⲗⲟ ⲉ̇ⲛⲟⲛⲁ
ⲧⲁⲡⲟⲧⲓⲛ ⲥⲟⲩⲁ̇ⲉⲓⲗⲁ · ⲇ̄ · ⲁ̇ⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣⲧⲩⲣⲓⲟⲛⲛⲁ · ⲱ︦ⲙ︦ⲏ︥̄ⲗⲟ ⲉ̇ⲛⲟⲛⲁ
ⲁ̇ⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣⲧⲩⲣⲓⲟⲛⲛⲁ · ⲱ︦ⲟ︦ⲇ︥̄ · ⲑ︤ⲱ︦ⲑ︥̄̄ⲗⲁ · ⲕ̄ · ⲟⲩⲛⲛⲁ · ⲓ︤ⲇ︥̄ · ⲡⲟⲩϣⲛ̄ · ⲃ · ⲗⲟ · ⲉ̇ⲛⲟⲛⲁ
Transcription: "in the month of Tapot (= Epeiph), taking place on (day) eleven, when it was (year) 822 of «from the Martyrs»" (ll. 16–17)
"in the month of Tapot, (day) 4, when it was (year) 848 of «from the Martyrs»" (ll. 18–19)
"when it was (year) of 874 «from the Martyrs», on Thoth 20, (day) 14 of the moon, (day) 2 of poush (= Monday)" (ll. 22–4)
Months: ⲧⲁⲡⲟⲧ
ⲑ︤ⲱ︦ⲑ︥̄̄
Weakdays: ⲡⲟⲩϣⲛ̄ · ⲃ · ⲗⲟ
Feasts

Offices & titles: king (ⲃ︦ⲗ︦ⲥ︦): l. 1 (Greek); (ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲉⲓ): ll. 9, 16 (Old Nubian)

Latest edition: van Gerven Oei 2011, pp. 225–62, fig. 1
Other editions: Griffith 1928b, pp. 2–12 (no. 1), fig. on p. 8, pl. 1; Zyhlarz 1932, pp. 190–3 (Old Nubian only)

Other publications: Burkitt 1930, pp. 209–10; Plumley 1978, pp. 238–9; P. QI 1 11, commentary to ll. 8–9; Munro-Hay 1982/3, p. 114; Bagnall – Worp 1986, passim (no. 3); Łajtar 1996c, p. 105 (no. 1); Welsby 2002, p. 89–90, fig. 34; CSBE(2), p. 86, n. 127, pp. 313–14 (no. 5), p. 317; Brakmann 2006, p. 305; CSCN, pp. 68, 238, 336, table 47 on p. 337; Łajtar 2014b, n. 1 on p. 221

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