Text 69
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- funerary complex of bishops south of cathedral, found in fill c. 1 m from the northern tomb and attributed to it
- Excavation no.
- FA 110/62-63 (neg. no. Fa.62/3.0167)
- Present location
- National Museum, Warsaw
- Museum no.
- 234644
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of Maththaios, bishop
- Date
- 26 May 766–24 June 766
- Notes
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 38.5; W: 32; Th: 9
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- grey
- Text colour
- traces of red paint
- Lines
- 15
- Height of letters
- 0.7-2.2
- Description
- almost rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by raised borders on each side; last line written on bottom border
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- almost complete, apart from last line which was broken off; surface very much worn, in some places completely illegible
- Date
- 26 May 766–24 June 766
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
Era of Diocletian
- Dating formulae
- ⲉ ⲙⲏⲛⲏ ⲡⲁⲩⲛⲓ [ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣] ⲋ ⲉⲧ[ⲟⲩ]ⲥ [ⲁ]ⲡⲟ ⲇⲓ[ⲟⲕⲗ]ⲏ ⲩⲡⲃ̣
- Transcription
- "in the month of Payni [...], in the year from Diocletian 482" (ll. 5–7)
- Months
- ⲡⲁⲩⲛⲓ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- abba (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): l. 4
bishop (ⲉⲡ[ⲓⲥ]ⲕⲟⲡⲟⲩ): l. 5
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- National Museum, Warsaw: https://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/496970
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. Warsaw 105, pl. 105
- Other editions
- I. Faras Copt., pp. 62–3, 202, fig. 72; I. Faras Greek 3, fig. 4
- Other publications
- Quecke 1975, p. 458; Jakobielski 1975a, p. 325; Hagedorn 1976, p. 184; Łajtar 1999, p. 162 (no. 121); Richter 2002, p. 178; CSBE(2), p. 75; Brakmann 2006, p. 301; Hägg 2010a, pp. 619–20; Richter 2013, p. 148; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, pp. 102–3 (with fig.)
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