Text 458

Provenance
Ikhmindi
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
S church
Excavation no.
 
Present location
Elephantine Museum
Museum no.
unknown
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
foundation inscription
Language
Greek
Content
foundation inscription of town of Ikhmindi; King Tokiltoeton appearing
Date
550–599
Notes
 
Material
limestone
Object dimensions
H: 75; W: 85
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
15
Height of letters
c. 30
Description
 
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
only left upper corner damaged
Date
550–599
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
indiction
king's occurrence
Dating formulae
ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲓ ⲕ̄︤ⲁ̄︥ ⲓⲛⲇ ⲅ̄
Transcription
"Epeiph 21, in the 3rd indiction" (l. 13)
Months
ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲓ
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
king (ⲃⲁⲥⲓⲗⲉⲱⲥ): l. 9
exarch of Talmis (= Kalabsha) (ⲉⲝⲁⲣⲭⲟⲩ ⲧⲁⲗⲙ): l. 11
curator (ⲕⲟⲣⲁⲧⲱⲣⲟⲥ): l. 14
craftsman (ⲧⲉⲭⲛⲓⲧⲁⲓ): l. 15
Toponyms & ethnonyms
Nobades (ⲧⲟⲩ ⲉⲑⲛⲟⲩⲥ ⲧⲟⲛ ⲛⲟⲃⲁⲇⲱⲛ): l. 10
Talmis (= Kalabsha) (ⲧⲁⲗⲙ): l. 11
Source
 
Image
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Source
Stenico 1960, fig. 4
Image
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Latest edition
Deichmann – Grossmann 1988, pp. 81–8
Other editions
Donadoni 1959, pp. 458–65; SEG 18 724; Bingen 1961, pp. 431–3; SB 8 10074
Other publications
Leclant 1961, fig. 38, pl. 40 (cf. p. 193); Stenico 1960, p. 65, fig. 4 (facsimile); Munro-Hay 1982/3, pp. 95–6; Hägg 1990, p. 160; Van der Vliet 2002, pp. 191–4; CSCN, p. 102; Werner 2013, p. 56, n. 50 (translation); SEG 52 1818
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