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- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- east of cathedral in pile of drifted sand
- Excavation no.
- F 22/61-62 (neg. nos. Fa.61/2.0120, Fa.61/2.0120a)
- Present location
- National Museum, Warsaw
- Museum no.
- 48397
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek/Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of Marianou, priest of the Church of the Four Living Creatures
- Date
- 6 May 955
- Notes
- ll. 1–2 (dating formula) in Greek
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 35; W: 31.5; Th: 5.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- yellowish grey
- Text colour
- Lines
- 13
- Height of letters
- Description
- rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by incised lines on top, left and right sides
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- put together from 4 fragments; almost complete, only small fragment of right lower corner lacking; surface much worn, especially in lines 1-2; some lacunas
- Date
- 6 May 955
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
Era of Diocletian
- Dating formulae
- ⲙⲏⲛⲓ̈ ⲡⲁ[⸌ⲭ⸍] ⲓⲁ ⲇⲓⲟ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲭ̄︤ⲟ︦ⲁ̄︥
ⲛ̄ⲥ[ⲟⲩ] ⲙ̄︤ⲛ︥ⲧⲟⲩⲁ ⲙ̄ⲡⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍ - Transcription
- 'in the month of Pachon, (day) 11, (in the year from) Diocletian 671" (l. 2)
"on day eleven (of the month) of Pachon" (l. 6) - Months
- ⲡⲁ[⸌ⲭ⸍]
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- priest of (church of) the Four Living Creatures (⳦ ⲙⲡϥ︦ⲧⲟ̣ⲟⲩ ⲛⲍⲟⲱⲛ̣): ll. 5–6 (I. Faras Copt. ⳦ ⲡ̣ϥ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ϥ̣ⲍⲟⲱⲏ̣; corr. Van der Vliet 1999a)
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- (church of) the Four Living Creatures (ⲡϥ︦ⲧⲟ̣ⲟⲩ ⲛⲍⲟⲱⲛ̣): ll. 5–6 (I. Faras Copt. ⲡ̣ϥ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ϥ̣ⲍⲟⲱⲏ̣; corr. Van der Vliet 1999a)
- Source
- National Museum, Warsaw: https://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/pl/zbiory/480899
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. Faras Copt., pp. 125–7, fig. 35
- Other editions
- Jakobielski 1965, pp. 171–2 (no. 6), fig. 90
- Other publications
- I. Faras Greek, p. 54, fig. 15; Jakobielski 1975a, p. 326; van der Vliet 1999a, pp. 141–2; CSBE(2), p. 79; Ochała 2011b, p. 220 (no. 1); Richter 2013, p. 151
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