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Provenance
Komangana
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
cemetery 178, reused for closing doorway in grave 18, inscribed surface turned inwards and upside down; found together with DBMNT 514
Excavation no.
178/18:1
Present location
Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.
SNM 24618
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Greek/Old Nubian
Content
epitaph of Marturophoros, bishop, son of Joassi, son of Marianya
Date
17 February 1159
Notes
near Debeira
'God of the spirits' type
I. Khartoum Greek 6 – 18 February; AM 875 was a leap year
last sentence in Old Nubian
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 44; W: 37; Th: 13
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
white
Text colour
 
Lines
23
Height of letters
0.5-2.6 (avarage 0.7-0.8)
Description
trapezoidal slab, epigraphic field surrounded on 3 sides (apart from bottom) by irregular raised border; line 1 written on border
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
completely preserved
Date
17 February 1159
Chronological systems
Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar
Dating formulae
ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲱ̇ⲟ̇ⲉ̇ ⟦ ̣ ̣ ⟧ ⲗⲟ ⲙⲉⲭⲉⲓⲣⲁ ⲕ̄ⲅ̄ ⲗⲟ
Transcription
"(in the year) from the Martyrs 875, (in the month of) Mecheir, (day) 23" (l. 22)
Months
ⲙⲉⲭⲉⲓⲣ-ⲁ
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
bishop (ⲉⲡⲓⲥⲕⲟⲡⲟⲥ): ll. 6–7, 20
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
I. Khartoum Greek, pl. VI
Image
Image not available
Source
Hägg 1981, fig. on p. 60
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
I. Khartoum Greek 6, pl. 6
Other editions
Holthoer – Salonen – Ziliacus 1964, pp. 19–22, fig. 2; Hägg 1981, pp. 59–62, drawing on p. 60, pls. 47, 106
Other publications
Säve-Söderbergh 1964, pp. 37–39, fig. 9a; Leclant 1964, p. 372; Michałowski 1967, p. 96; Žabkar 1967, p. 16; Krause 1970, p. 84 = Krause, in: Altheim – Stiehl 1971, p. 529; Säve-Söderbergh 1970, pp. 238–239; Vantini 1970, pp. 19–20, 236–237; Säve-Söderbergh – Englund – Nordström 1981, p. 135; Säve-Söderbergh 1981, p. 50; Hägg 1982, pp. 104–105; Łajtar 1994a, pp. 203–204; Browne 1996a, pp. 187–188; Łajtar 1996c, p. 106 (no. 19); CSBE(2), p. 86, n. 128; CSCN, table 11 on p. 71; Ruffini 2014a, p. 962
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