Text 86
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- reused in walls of Arab citadel
- Excavation no.
- F 65/61-62 (neg. no. Fa.61/2.0490)
- Present location
- National Museum, Warsaw
- Museum no.
- 149799
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- official inscription
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- official text of unknown character, mentioning king Georgios I, Zacharias, eparch of palace and Kyros, bishop of Pachoras
- Date
- 30 August 867–28 August 868 or 29 August 877–28 August 878
- Notes
- year 583 from Diocletian was a leap year, hence year 584 started on 30 August; Jakobielski in I. Faras Copt suggests to read 4th indiction, which would give AD 870/1
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 35.5; W: 23.5; Th: 9
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- grey
- Text colour
- pink
- Lines
- 19
- Height of letters
- Description
- rectangular block; traces of framing incised line in upper left and lower left corners
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- surface very much worn; text clearly legible only in central part
- Date
- 30 August 867–28 August 868 or 29 August 877–28 August 878
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
regnal years
Era of Diocletian
- Dating formulae
- ⲙⲏ[ⲛⲓ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ⲁⲡ]ⲟ ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏⲧ[ⲓⲁⲛⲟⲩ] ⲫ[ ̣]ⲇ̄ ϩⲣⲁⲓ̈ϩ︤ⲛ︥ [--- ⲙ̄︤ⲛ︥ⲧⲥ]ⲛⲟⲟⲩⲥ ⲛⲣ[ⲟⲙ]ⲡⲉ [ⲙ̄]ⲫ[ⲓⲗ]ⲟ[ⲭ̄]ⲥ̄ ⲛⲣⲣ[ⲟ ⲅⲉⲱⲣ]⸌ⲅⲏ⸍
- Transcription
- "in the month [...], (in the year) from Diocletian 584 (or 594), in the twelfth year of king Georgios" (ll. 3–7)
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- king (ⲛⲣⲣ[ⲟ]): l. 7; (ⲛ̄[ⲣⲣⲟ]): l. 16
eparch of the palace (ⲛⲉⲡⲁⲣⲭⲟⲥ [ⲙⲡⲁ]ⲗⲁⲧⲓⲟⲛ): ll. 9–10
abba ([ⲁ]ⲃⲃⲁ): l. 11
bishop of Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲛⲉ[ⲡ]ⲓ[ⲥⲕⲟⲡ]⸌ⲟⲥ⸍ ⲙⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): ll. 11–12
domestikos of Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲇⲟⲙⲉⲥⲧⲓ[ⲕⲟⲥ] ⲙⲡⲁⲭ[ⲱⲣ]ⲁⲥ): ll. 14–15
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): l. 12; (ⲡⲁⲭ[ⲱⲣ]ⲁⲥ): l. 15
- Source
- neg. no. Fa.61/2.0490 (= I. Faras Copt., fig. 21)
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. Faras Copt., pp. 92–6, fig. 21
- Other editions
- Jakobielski 1965, p. 174 (no. 7), fig. 91; Jakobielski 1970, pp. 33–6, il. 37
- Other publications
- Catalogue Vienna 2002, p. 101 (no. 33), fig. on p. 103; CSCN, pp. 210, 212
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