Text 72
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- west of funerary chapel of bishop Ioannes
- Excavation no.
- F 132/61 (neg. no. Fa.61.439)
- Present location
- National Museum, Warsaw
- Museum no.
- 149482
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- fragment of epitaph, probably of bishop Chael
- Date
- probably 30 August 1123–28 August 1124
- Notes
- year 839 from the Martyrs was a leap year, hence year 840 it began on 30 August; date is uncertain, because numeral is not clearly legible
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 6; W: 5.5; Th: 4.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- grey
- Text colour
- Lines
- 5
- Height of letters
- 0.6-1.5
- Description
- little fragment of stela; epigraphic field framed by triple incised lines
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- only fragment of left margin preserved
- Date
- probably 30 August 1123–28 August 1124
- Chronological systems
- Era of the Martyrs
- Dating formulae
- ⲁⲡⲟ⸌ⲙ⸍ ⲱⲙ̣ […]
- Transcription
- "(in the year) from the Martyrs 840" (l. 3)
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Warsaw 108, pl. 108
- Other editions
- I. Faras Copt., pp. 162–4, fig. 49
- Other publications
- Michałowski 1962a, p. 163 (no. 13), fig. 100 (left); CSBE(2), p. 84 (incorrect date)
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