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Provenance
Kalabsha
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
not recorded
Excavation no.
 
Present location
British Museum, London
Museum no.
EA602
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Greek
Content
epitaph of man Akkindarpe
Date
700–999
Notes
 
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 35; W: 23.5
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
9
Height of letters
 
Description
roughly rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by incised line
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
inscription incomplete – lower left corner broken off; lower margin lacking
Date
700–999
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
indiction
Dating formulae
ⲙ⸌ⲏ⸍ ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕ ⲓ̈ⲋ ⲓⲛⲇ/ ⲁ
Transcription
"in the month of Choiak, (day) 16, in the 1st indiction" (ll. 5–6)
Months
ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕ
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
© The Trustees of the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA602
Image
Image not available
Source
O. Brit. Mus. Copt., pl. IX, no. 602
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 53 (photo at http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=405115001&objectId=124284&partId=1)
Other editions
CIG 4 9130; Revillout 1885, p. 24, no. 30; O. Brit. Mus. Copt. 1, p. 10 (no. 6), pl. 9 (no. 602); I. Lefebvre 622; SB 5 8736
Other publications
le Blant 1869, p. 81; Tibiletti Bruno 1963, passim; Žabkar 1967, p. 16; Van der Vliet 2002, pp. 178–84
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