Text 89
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- unknown
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Coptic Museum, Cairo
- Museum no.
- 36512
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of Thomas, bishop of Pachoras
- Date
- 16 July 862
- Notes
- labelled "Maharraqa" in SBKopt.
dating formula correctly read in Sayce 1898
- Material
- marble
- Object dimensions
- not recorded
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- white
- Text colour
- Lines
- 22
- Height of letters
- Description
- rectangular slab
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- upper part lacking
- Date
- 16 July 862
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
Era of Diocletian
- Dating formulae
- ⲛ̄ⲥⲟⲩ † ⲕ︤ⲃ︥ † ⲙ̄ⲡⲉⲃⲟⲧ ⲉⲡⲏⲫ ⲁⲡⲟ ⲇⲓ⸌ⲟ⸍ⲕⲗⲏ⸌ⲧ⸍⳽ ⲉⲡⲓ ⲫⲟⲏ̄
(corrected by Ochała) - Transcription
- "on day 22 of the month of Epeiph, (in the year) from Diocletian 578" (ll.14–15)
- Months
- ⲉⲡⲏⲫ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- abba (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): l. 3
monk in the monastery of Maurage (ⲧⲙⲛ̄ⲧⲙⲟⲛⲁⲭⲟⲥ ϩⲙ̄ ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲁⲥⲧⲏⲣⲓⲟⲛ (...) ⲙⲁⲩⲣⲁⲅⲏ): ll. 5–7
archimandrite (ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲙⲁⲛ⸌ⲇ⸍ⲧⲋ︥): l. 7
king (ⲛ︤ⲛⲉⲣⲣⲱⲟⲩ): l. 9
bishop of Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲛ̄ⲧⲙ̄ⲛ⸌ⲧ⸍ⲉⲡⲓⲥⲕⲟⲋ̄ ⲛ̄ⲧⲉⲡⲓⲥⲕⲟⲡⲏ ⲛ̄ⲗⲁⲙⲡⲣⲟⲡⲟⲗⲉⲱⲥ ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): ll. 11–12
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- monastery of Maurage (ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲁⲥⲧⲏⲣⲓⲟⲛ (...) ⲙⲁⲩⲣⲁⲅⲏ): ll. 5–7
Maurage (ⲙⲁⲩⲣⲁⲅⲏ): l. 7
Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): l. 12
- Source
- Maspero 1903, fig. on p. 162
- Image
-
- Source
- Jakobielski 1972, fig. 10
- Image
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- Latest edition
- SB Kopt. 1 719
- Other editions
- Sayce 1898, pp. 111–12; Maspero (G.) 1903, pp. 161–4, fig. on p. 162; I. Faras Copt., pp. 75–80, fig. 10
- Other publications
- Griffith 1925, p. 263; Junker 1925b, pp. 113, 128, 130; Griffith 1927, pp. 94–6; Monneret de VIllard 1935–57: 1, p. 200; Žabkar 1967, p. 16; Jakobielski 1975a, pp. 325–6; Roquet 1977, p. 166; Łajtar 1992a, p. 121 (no. 8); CSBE(2), p. 77; Brakmann 2006, p. 305
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