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Provenance
Faras
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
N Church in the Desert
Excavation no.
 
Present location
not preserved
Museum no.
 
Medium
wall
Technique
painted (dipinto)
Type of text
unidentified
Language
Coptic
Content
fragment of inscription of Petrou, mentioning abba Shenouthos, archimandrite, son of Iesou
Date
probably 800–899
Notes
all editors - AD 880/1, but the last line appears to contain not a date but a numerical cryptogram '2597'
Material
plaster
Object dimensions
 
Text dimensions
not recorded
Object colour
 
Text colour
black
Lines
12-13
Height of letters
 
Description
graffiti in black ink
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
only upper left and lower right corners preserved at moment of discovery; in middle 5 or 6 lines lacking
Date
probably 800–899
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
abba (ⲁ̣ⲃ̣): l. 11
archimandrite (ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲙⲁⲛ⸌ⲇ⸍): l. 11
monk (ⲙⲟⲛⲁⲭⲱⲥ): l. 12
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
 
Image
Image not available
Source
Griffith 1927, pl. 74.2
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
I. Faras Copt., pp. 96–7, fig. 22
Other editions
Mileham 1910, p. 29; Griffith 1927, p. 93, pl. 74.2; Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, pp. 190–2
Other publications
Lethmayer – Zach 1986, p. 142; Łajtar 1992a, p. 121 (no. 6); CSBE(2), p. 82, n. 99; CSCN, p. 66, n. 59
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