Text 2149
- Provenance
- Kalabsha (probably)
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- unknown
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- British Museum, London
- Museum no.
- EA409
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of woman Souai
- Date
- probably 700–999
- Notes
- commonly attributed to Thebes, but evidently Nubian, probably from Kalabsha (Junker, Łajtar)
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 19; W: ?
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 12
- Height of letters
- Description
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- Date
- probably 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
indiction
- Dating formulae
- ⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲫⲁⲱⲫⲓ ⲓ̈ ⲓ̈ⲛⲇ ⲋ
- Transcription
- "in the month of Phaophi, (day) 19, in the 6th indiction" (ll. 8–9)
- Months
- ⲫⲁⲱⲫⲓ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- Image
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- Source
- O. Brit. Mus. Copt. 1, pl. 9 (no. 409)
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 42a
- Other editions
- Birch 1841, p. 367 (no. 4); CIG 4 9111; O. Brit. Mus. Copt. 1, p. 10 (no. 4), pl. 9 (no. 409); Revillout 1885, p. 29 (no. 39); I. Lefebvre 382; SB 5 8718; Baillet 1926, no. 2110
- Other publications
- Junker 1925b, pp. 115–16; Tibiletti Bruno 1963, passim; Łajtar 1993a, p. 241, n. 4; Richter 2013, p. 148
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