Text 6
- Provenance
- Ashkeit area
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- used as doorstep at Saqia 43
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 3727
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek/Old Nubian
- Content
- epitaph of woman Ikkir
- Date
- 6 August after 1084 before 1184
- Notes
- 'God of the spirits' type
one sentence in Old Nubian
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 50; W: 24; Th: 11
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- grey
- Text colour
- Lines
- 27
- Height of letters
- 0.7-1.3
- Description
- rectangular slab; epigraphic field surrounded by raised border; line 1 inscribed on top border; uninscribed space at bottom
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- text preserved completely, though stela broken at bottom
- Date
- 6 August after 1084 before 1184
- Chronological systems
- Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲱ︦[ ̣ ̣] • … ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲣⲉⲁ ⲓ̈ⲅ ⲗⲟ
- Transcription
- "(in the year) from the Martyrs 8.." (ll. 23–4)
"Mesore 13" (ll. 25–6) - Months
- ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲣⲉ-ⲁ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Argini (ⲁⲣⲅⲓⲛⲓ): l. 23
(Church of) A...ti (in) Argini (ⲁ ̣ ̣ ̣ⲧⲓ · ⲁⲣⲅⲓⲛⲓ): ll. 22–23
- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Greek 7, pl. 7
- Other editions
- Barns 1954, pp. 28–9, pl. 5b
- Other publications
- Žabkar 1967, p. 16; Łajtar 1993b, p. 103, with n. 12; Łajtar 1996c, p. 107 (no. 22); Łajtar – Van der Vliet 1998, pp. 50–1 (no. 12); CSBE(2), p. 85; Łajtar 2006b, p. 118 (no. 4)
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