Text 67
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- north building, west wall, near north-west corner
- Excavation no.
- FA 110/63-64 (neg. nos. Fa.62/3.0647–0649)
- Present location
- National Museum, Warsaw
- Museum no.
- 234292
- Medium
- wall
- Technique
- incised (inscription)
- Type of text
- foundation inscription
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- foundation inscription of Bishop Paulos
- Date
- 1 May 707–29 August 707
- Notes
- I. Khartoum Copt. prints wrong museum number (234848)
year 423 from Diocletian was a leap year, lasting one day longer; 6th Constantinopolitan indiction began on 1 August 707 and Egyptian on 1 May 707
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 77; W: 51; Th: 27
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- grey
- Text colour
- Lines
- 26
- Height of letters
- 1.5-2.5
- Description
- rectangular block; roughly rectangular epigraphic field framed by raised borders on top, left and right sides
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete
- Date
- 1 May 707–29 August 707
- Chronological systems
- regnal years
indiction (Egyptian)
Era of Diocletian
- Dating formulae
- ⲉⲡⲓ ⲓ̈ⲁ ⲧⲏⲥ ⲃⲁⲥⲓⲗⲉⲓⲁⲥ ⲧⲟⲩ ⲑⲉⲟⲥⲧⲉⲡⲧⲟⲩ ⳤ ⲫⲓⲗⲟⲭ̄︤ⲩ︥̄ ⲃⲁⲥⲓⲗⲉⲱⲥ ⲙⲉⲣⲕⲟⲩⲣⲓⲟⲩ
ⲉⲡⲓⲛⲉⲙ⸌ⲏ⸍ ⲓⲛ︦ⲇ︥ ⲋ
ⲉⲧⲟⲩⲥ ⲧⲱⲛ ⲭⲣⲟⲛⲱⲛ ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲩ̄︤ⲕ︦ⲅ̄︥ - Transcription
- "in the 11th (year) of the reign of (...) king Merkourios" (ll. 3–5)
"in the 6th indiction" (l. 7)
"in the year of era of Diocletian 423" (l. 26) - Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- king (ⲃⲁⲥⲓⲗⲉⲱⲥ): l. 5
eparch (ⲉⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍): l. 6
abba (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): ll. 10, 16
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- https://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/618257
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. Warsaw 101, pl. 101
- Other editions
- Jakobielski 1966b, pp. 99–106, fig. 2; I. Faras Greek 1, fig. 1; Rostkowska 1982, pp. 208–9 (partial transcription and translation)
- Other publications
- Michałowski 1964a, pp. 197–9, pl. 39b; Michałowski 1967, pp. 65–7; Jakobielski 1969, p. 500, fig. 2; I. Faras Copt., pp. 35–51; Munro-Hay 1982/3, pp. 97–9; Łajtar 1999, p. 162 (no. 117); Van der Vliet 1999b, pp. 84–97; Catalogue Vienna 2002, pp. 99–100 (no. 31), fig. on p. 101; Felle 2003, p. 86; Brakmann 2006, pp. 311–14; CSCN, table 11 on p. 71, pp. 74, 110, 115, 116, 121, 210, 212; Werner 2013, p. 82; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, pp. 64–65 (with fig.)
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