Text 97
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- cathedral, south pastophorium, niche in east wall; to the right of painting no. 54 (Christ Emmanuel)
- Excavation no.
- J 226k.2/3 (neg. nos. Fa.63/4.1393, Fa.63/4.1400, Fa.63/4.1401)
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 24361
- Medium
- wall
- Technique
- painted (dipinto)
- Type of text
- catalogue
- Language
- Greek/Coptic/Old Nubian
- Content
- list of bishops of Pachoras
- Date
- 900–1150
- Notes
- Material
- plaster
- Object dimensions
- Text dimensions
- H: 87; W: 58
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 32
- Height of letters
- Description
- large painted inscription divided into five columns by vertical lines: name, word 'years', number of years, month of death, day of death; ll. 1–16 written in one hand, the remaining lines in different hands; from l. 24 columnar layout replaced by descriptive one
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- incomplete; letters largely obliterated, especially in upper right part
- Date
- 900–1150
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲉⲙ̣ⲏ̣ⲛ̣ ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲓ ⲕ
ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲣⲏ ⲓ︦ⲅ︥̄
ⲭⲟ︦ⲓ︦ⲁ︦ⲕ ⲓ︦ⲋ︥̄
ⲙ⸌ⲏ⸍ⲛⲟⲥ ⲉⲡⲓⲫ ⲏⲙⲏ̣ ⲕ̣̄ⲋ
ⲙⲏⲛⲟⲥ ⲑⲱⲑ ⲕ̄︤ⲇ︥
ⲉⲡⲓⲫ ⲓ︦ⲍ︥̄
ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲩⲣⲓ : ⲕ̄ⲁ︥
ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲛⲏ̣ⲁ • ⲓ︦ • ⲗⲟ
ⲡⲁⲩⲛⲏⲁ • ⲓ︦ ⲗ[ⲟ] - Transcription
- "in the month of Epeiph, (day) 20" (l. 18)
"Mesore 13" (l. 19)
"Choiak 16" (l. 20)
"in the month of Epeiph, day 26" (l. 21)
"in the month of Thoth, (day) 24" (l. 22)
"Epeiph 17" (l. 24)
"Mesore 21" (l. 26)
"on Pachon 10" (l. 27)
"on Payni 10" (l. 28) - Months
- ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲓ, ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲣⲏ, ⲭⲟ︦ⲓ︦ⲁ︦ⲕ, ⲉⲡⲓⲫ (x2), ⲑⲱⲑ, ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲩⲣⲓ, ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲛⲏ̣-ⲁ, ⲡⲁⲩⲛⲏ-ⲁ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- abba (ⲁⲃ): ll. 16, 21; (ⲁ︦ⲃ︦): ll. 18, 19, 22, 23, 24 (x2), 26; (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): l. 20; (ⲁⲃ⸌ⲃ⸍): ll. 27, 28, 30
bishop of Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲉⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲡⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍): ll. 24 (x2), 30; (ⲉⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲡ̣ⲁ̣⸌ⲭ⸍): l. 26; (ⲉ̇ⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲡⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍): l. 28
bishop (ⲉ̇ⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍): l. 28
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍): ll. 24 (x2), 26, 28, 30
Timikleos (= Dongola) (ⲧⲓⲙⲏⲕⲗⲉⲟⲥ): l. 28 (corr. A. Łajtar)
- Latest edition
- I. Faras Copt., pp. 190–5, fig. 69
- Other editions
- Jakobielski 1966c, pp. 152–70
- Other publications
- Michałowski 1963b, p. 240, n. 14; Michałowski 1964a, pp. 196, 200, 202, pl. 40b; Michałowski 1965a, p. 8; Michałowski 1967, pp. 19, 45, 75–6, 98, fig. 52; Jakobielski 1969, p. 502, fig. 5; Michałowski 1970a, pp. 13–14, il. 3; Jakobielski 1971, pp. 194–9; Altheim – Stiehl 1971, pp. 500–3; Jakobielski 1975, p. 327; Jakobielski 1978, pp. 143–5, pl. 42; Godlewski 1995, pp. 113–14; Richter 2002, pp. 177–80; Vantini 2009, pl. between pp. 128–9; Łajtar 2015b, pp. 233–4, 238, 241–2
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