Text 2775
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- cathedral, south pastophorium, west wall; accompanying painting no. 61 (King Georgios protected by Virgin with Child)
- Excavation no.
- inv. no. 61 (painting)
- Present location
- National Museum, Warsaw
- Museum no.
- 234032
- Medium
- wall
- Technique
- painted (dipinto)
- Type of text
- legend
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- names of King Georgios, Mary, and Jesus Christ serving as legend to representation of king under protection of Virgin with Child
- Date
- 975–999
- Notes
- the same hand as in DBMNT 1837
- Material
- plaster
- Object dimensions
- Text dimensions
- 1: H: 19; W: 11
2: H: 9; W: 37
3: H: ?; W: 28 + 23 - Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 1: 1 vertical + 1 horizontal
2: 2 horizontal
3: 3 horizontal - Height of letters
- Description
- three inscription accompanying the scene of protection of King Georgios by Virgin Mary with Jesus Child: (1) around the head of Mary; (2) to the right of Jesus Child; (3) on both sides of Mary’s head
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete but obliterated
- Date
- 975–999
- Chronological systems
- king's occurrence
- Dating formulae
- ⲅⲉⲱ̇ⲣⲅⲓⲟⲩ ⲃⲗⲥ ... ⲩ̄ⲥ̄ ⲍⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲣ̄ⲓ̄ ⲃ̄ⲗ̄ⲥ̄
- Transcription
- "King Georgios ... son of King Zacharias" (ll. 4–6)
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- king (ⲃⲗⲥ): l. 5; (ⲃ̄ⲗ︦ⲥ̄): l. 6
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- National Museum, Warsaw: https://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/496346
- Image
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- Source
- Jakobielski 1974, figs on p. 294
- Image
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- Latest edition
- Jakobielski et alii 2017, p. 343, figs. on pp. 342, 344 (no. 109)
- Other editions
- I. Faras Copt., pp. 128–9, fig. 37; Jakobielski 1974, pp. 291–2 (no. 18), figs. on p. 291
- Other publications
- (selection) Michałowski 1964a, pp. 200–1, pl. 41b; Michałowski 1966a, p. 13; Michałowski 1967, p. 77; Michałowski 1974a, pp. 173–6 (no. 34), fig. on p. 175; Werner 2013, pp. 101–2; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, pp. 182–3 (with fig.)
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