Text 68
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- outside cathedral, south wall, near south-east corner
- Excavation no.
- FA 56/61-62 (neg. no. Fa.62.0494)
- Present location
- National Museum, Warsaw
- Museum no.
- 234680
- Medium
- architectural element
- Technique
- incised (inscription)
- Type of text
- foundation inscription
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- fragment of foundation inscription of Bishop Paulos
- Date
- probably 707
- Notes
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 31; W: 78; Th: 14.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- red
- Text colour
- Lines
- 3
- Height of letters
- Description
- fragment of lintel; line 1 of text inscribed on cornice, rest below it
- Decorative elements
- in central raised part, Maltese cross in relief
- State of preservation
- partly preserved, right side lacking
- Date
- probably 707
- Chronological systems
- indiction
- Dating formulae
- ⲓⲛⲇ⳽ [---]
- Transcription
- "(in the) [...] indiction" (l. 2)
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- abba (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): l. 2
bishop (ⲉⲡⲓⲥⳤ): l. 2 + monogram
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- https://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/618638
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. Warsaw 102, pl. 102
- Other editions
- Jakobielski 1965, p. 164 (no. 2), fig. 86; I. Faras Greek 2, fig. 2; Rostkowska 1982, p. 209
- Other publications
- Bull. épigr. 1966, 498, p. 17, n. 57; I. Faras Copt., pp. 48–9; Łajtar 1999, p. 162 (no. 118); van der Vliet 1999b, pp. 86–7; Catalogue Vienna 2002, p. 121 (no. 53), fig. on p. 120; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, pp. 68–9 (with fig.)
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