Text 2203
- Provenance
- Hambukol
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- north kom, cruciform tomb near church
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
- Museum no.
- 998.89.7
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of Merki, notary, meizoteros, chartoularios of Sai, exarch, protodomestikos
- Date
- 800–899
- Notes
- Material
- marble
- Object dimensions
- H: 30.2; W: 25.5; Th: 3.5–4.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- white-cream with gray-blue stripes
- Text colour
- Lines
- 19
- Height of letters
- 0.5–1.8
- Description
- roughly rectangular marble slab
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete; lower right-hand corner broken off but with no damage to text; surface worn in places
- Date
- 800–899
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲉⲛ ⲙⲏⲛⲏ ⲑⲱ︦ⲑ ⲕ̄ⲃ̄︥
- Transcription
- "in the month of Thoth, (day) 22" (ll. 15–16)
- Months
- ⲑⲱ︦ⲑ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- notary (ⲛⲟ⸌ⲧ⸍): l. 16
meizoteros (ⲙⲓⲍⲱ⸌ⲧ⸍): l. 17
chartoularios of Sai (ⲭⲁⲓ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲥⲁⲏ): l. 18
exarch of Timikleos (= Dongola) (ⲉⲝⲁⲣ ⲧⲓⲙⲓⲕⲗⲉ̇ⲱⲥ): ll. 18–19
protodomestikos (ⲡⲣⲱⲧⲇⲟⲙⲓⲥⲧⲓⲕⲟⲥ): margin
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Sai (ⲥⲁⲏ): l. 18
Timikleos (= Dongola) (ⲧⲓⲙⲓⲕⲗⲉ̇ⲱⲥ): ll. 18–19
- Latest edition
- Łajtar 2019, pp. 145–60, fig. 1
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Anderson 1999, p. 75; Łajtar 2006a, pp. 102–4; I. QI 20, comm. to ll. 10–11; Łajtar 2015b, pp. 231–2, 238; Berkes 2017, p. 117, table on p. 119; CIEN 7, no. 41
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