Text 8
- Provenance
- Meinarti
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- not recorded
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 16
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of son of Mashshouda Isminna, choiakishshil
- Date
- 1 May 1084
- Notes
- 'God of the spirits' type
lunar day incorrect – 10 days later than Alexandrian cycle; Bagnall – Worp 1986 – 13 moon
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 56.5; W: 34.5; Th: 12
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- grey
- Text colour
- Lines
- 27
- Height of letters
- 0.6-2.5
- Description
- roughly rectangular slab; epigraphic field surrounded by raised border; line 1 written on top border
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- almost completely preserved - line 1 illegible
- Date
- 1 May 1084
- Chronological systems
- Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar
lunar calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲱ ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲛ ⲙⲟⲛⲟⲥ ⲋ ⲥⲉⲗⲗⲉⲛⲏ ⲓ︦ⲃ︥̄
- Transcription
- "(in the year) from the Martyrs 800, in the month of Pachon, (day) 6, on the 12th moon (day)" (ll. 24–5)
- Months
- ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲛ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- choiakishshil (ⲭⲉⲓⲁⲕⲓϣϣⲓ): l. 26
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Greek 9, pl. 9
- Other editions
- SB 4 7432; Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, pp. 217–18; I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 14
- Other publications
- Crowfoot 1927, pp. 230–1 (no. 5), pl. 58; Oates 1963, p. 162 (no. 4); Tibiletti Bruno 1963, passim; Adams 1964, p. 248; Grumel 1965, p. 85 (no. 3); Žabkar 1967, pp. 16–17; Bagnall – Worp 1986, passim (no. 2); Łajtar 1992a, p. 123 (no. 1); Łajtar 1996c, p. 107 (no. 20); Adams 2003, pp. 71–2; CSBE(2), pp. 85, 313–14 (no. 3)
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