Text 1646

Provenance
Faras
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
Anchorite's Grotto, S part of W wall; right of panel no. 26 (DBMNT 1645)
Excavation no.
no. 27a
Present location
not preserved
Museum no.
 
Medium
wall
Technique
painted (dipinto)
Type of text
subliterary: catalogue of names
Language
Coptic
Content
list of Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
Date
circa 738
Notes
 
Material
plaster
Object dimensions
 
Text dimensions
not recorded
Object colour
 
Text colour
reddish/brownish
Lines
22
Height of letters
 
Description
panel belonging to decoration of hermit's cell; enclosed within painted frame; apart from ll. 1–2, the list is arranged in 2 columns, 20 names in each one
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
incomplete; only first 6 names of right column preserved
Date
circa 738
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
Griffith 1927, pl. 65.1
Image
Image not available
Source
Griffith 1927, pl. 71.27a
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
Griffith 1927, p. 89 (no. 27a), pls. 65.1, 71.27a
Other editions
Sayce 1898, pp. 175–6 (column I, ll. 1–22 + column III)
Other publications
Pietschmann 1899, pp. 133–4
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