Text 1505
- Provenance
- Tafa
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- church in south temple, on both sides of the doorway leading from pronaos of the temple (naos of the church) to temple sanctuary
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- not preserved
- Museum no.
- Medium
- wall
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- other
- Language
- unidentified
- Content
- table of hours and length of shadow for the months of Egyptian year
- Date
- probably 550–650
- Notes
- Material
- plaster
- Object dimensions
- not recorded
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- red
- Lines
- 13
- Height of letters
- Description
- two inscriptions on both sides of doorway in form of table of six columns and thirteen rows; names of months in headings (l. 1), below which set of numerals
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- inscription (a) almost complete with only minor lacunae; inscription (b) heavily damaged, three first columns missing
- Date
- probably 550–650
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- inscription (a): ⲫⲁⲱⲫⲓ ⲁⲑⲩ[ⲣ] ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕ ⲧⲩⲃⲓ ⲙⲉⲭⲓⲣ ⲫⲁⲙⲉⲛⲱⲑ
inscription (b): ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲓ ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲣⲏ ⲑⲱⲑ - Transcription
- "Phaophi; Athyr; Choiak; Tybi; Mecheir; Phamenoth" (inscription [a], l. 1)
“Epeiph; Mesore; Thoth” (inscription [b], l. 1) - Months
- ⲫⲁⲱⲫⲓ ⲁⲑⲩ[ⲣ] ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕ ⲧⲩⲃⲓ ⲙⲉⲭⲓⲣ ⲫⲁⲙⲉⲛⲱ ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲓ ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲣⲏ ⲑⲱⲑ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- Łajtar – Ochała – Deptuła forthcoming (a), no. 1 (inscriptions [a]+[b] after Bankes)
- Other editions
- Letronne 1823, pp. 357–84 = Letronne 1883, pp. 77–94 (inscription [a] after Gau); CIG 3 5038 (inscription [a] after Gau and Letronne); Bouriant 1900, pp. 575–604 (inscription [a] after Gau); SB 5 8510 (inscription [a] after CIG)
- Other publications
- Gau 1822, pl. 11 (inscription [a]); Richardson 1822: 1, p. 477 (description of inscription [a]); Letronne, in: Gau 1822, pp. 28–9 (comment on inscription [a]); Bilfinger 1886, pp. 60–3 (interpretation of inscription [a]); Borchardt 1920: 29–32, figs. 7–8 (inscription [a]); Delattre 2010, p. 278 (description of the inscription [a])
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