Text 7
- Provenance
- Meinarti
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- not recorded
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Museum at el-Damer
- Museum no.
- SNM 3726
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of Joassi, eparch of Nobadia and choiakishshil, son of Sentikol
- Date
- 15 September 1161
- Notes
- 'God of the spirits' type
lunar day incorrect – 14 days later than Alexandrian cycle
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 59; W: 35; Th: 9
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- grey
- Text colour
- traces of red paint
- Lines
- 27
- Height of letters
- 0.7-2
- Description
- rectangular slab with recessed epigraphic field; line 1 written on top border
- Decorative elements
- at bottom cross flanked by monograms of Maria and Michael
- State of preservation
- completely preserved
- Date
- 15 September 1161
- Chronological systems
- Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar
lunar calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲁ̇ⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲱ︤ⲟ̄ⲏ • ⲑⲱ︦ⲑ ⲙⲏⲛⲟⲥ • ⲓ︤ⲏ︥̄ • ⲥⲉⲗⲗⲉⲛⲏ • ⲏ̄ :
- Transcription
- "(in the year) from the Martyrs 878, in the month of Thoth, (day) 18, on the 8th moon (day)" (ll. 23–4)
- Months
- ⲑⲱ︦ⲑ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- eparch of Nobadia (ⲉ̇ⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⟦ ̣ ̣ ̣⟧ ⲛⲟⲡⲁ⸌ⲇ⸍): l. 25
choiakishshil (ⲕⲩⲁⲅⲓⲥⲩϣⲗ̄): l. 26
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Nobadia (ⲛⲟⲡⲁ⸌ⲇ⸍): l. 25
- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Greek 8, pl. 8
- Other editions
- Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, pp. 218–19; Barns 1954, pp. 26–7, pl. 5a
- Other publications
- Oates 1963, p. 162 (no. 7); Adams 1964, p. 248; Žabkar 1967, pp. 16–17; Bagnall – Worp 1986, passim (no. 4); Łajtar 1992a, pp. 124 (no. 5); Łajtar 1993c, p. 247; Shinnie 1996, pl. 32b; Łajtar 1996c, p. 107 (no. 21); Adams 2001, p. 99; Łajtar 2003, p. 72; CSBE(2), pp. 86, 313–14 (no. 6); Łajtar 2006b, pp. 114–15 (no. 1); Tsakos 2009b, p. 202 (no. 5)
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