Text 2896
- Provenance
- Sonqi Tino
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- church, room 6 (south vestibule), west wall; painted across painting of Three Youths
- Excavation no.
- DON4, 8, 10, 17–18
- Present location
- Vatican Museum, Rome
- Museum no.
- MV 42323
- Medium
- wall
- Technique
- painted (dipinto)
- Type of text
- private prayer
- Language
- Greek/Old Nubian
- Content
- prayer left by Anatol of Great Church of Jesus
- Date
- 1000–1399
- Notes
- lines 1, 2, 5 in Greek; lines 3–4 in Old Nubian
- Material
- plaster
- Object dimensions
- Text dimensions
- not recorded
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 5
- Height of letters
- Description
- painted inscription extending over painting representing Three Youths in Fiery Furnace; composed of four parts: (1), (2), & (3) prayers to Archangel Michael in Greek (ll. 1–2, 5); (3) Old Nubian text of biographical (?) character; (4) subscript of the author in Greek; line 2 too long to fit the available space, hence its ending arranged vertically at the end; line 1 written in bigger script
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete, slightly obliterated in places
- Date
- 1000–1399
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- cleric of Great (Church of) Jesus (ⲓ̅ⲥ̅ [ⲙ]ⲉ⸌ⲅ⸍ ⲕⲗ[ⲏ]): l. 2
king (ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ): l. 3
thegna of --- ([ 4–5 ]ⲡ̣ⲁⲣⲕⲉ ⲑⲉⲅ̣ⲛ̣ⲁ̣): l. 5
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Great People’s Church of Jesus (ⲓ̅ⲥ̅ ⲙⲉ⸌ⲅ⸍ ⲉⲕⲗⲏⲥⲓⲁ ⲁ̅ⲛ̅ⲟ̅ⲛ̣̅): l. 1 (ⲓ︦ⲥ︦ ⲙⲉ⸌ⲅ⸍ ⲉⲕⲗⲏⲥⲓⲁⲛ̣ ⲁⲛ︦ⲟ︦ⲛ): l. 5
Great (Church of) Jesus (ⲓ̅ⲥ̅ [ⲙ]ⲉ⸌ⲅ⸍ ⲕⲗ[ⲏ]): l. 2
(Church of) Four Living Creatures (ⲧⲉⲥⲥⲁⲣⲁ ⲍⲱⲁ): l. 5
- Latest edition
- Laisney 2012, p. 610 (nos. 12–14), figs. 9–10 (fragmentary edition); cf. p. 604 with fig. 8 (description of composition)
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Donadoni 1975, pp. 31, 33, 37–8; Amenta 2012, figs. 1, 2, 5–6, 7h
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