Text 503
- Provenance
- Tafa / Bab Kalabsha
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
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(a): discovered in 1960/1 in chamber of tomb on north terrace of Bergheiligtum
(b): discovered in 1818 by Bankes in unknown circumstances - Excavation no.
- (a): BK/29A
- Present location
- (a): unknown (b): British Museum, London
- Museum no.
- (b): EA408
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of Markou
- Date
- 1 March 764 or 1 March 766
- Notes
- 4th indiction would be correct
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- (a): H: 16.5; W: 29
(b): H: 24; W: 26.5; Th: 7.5 - Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- (a): 6; (b): 9
- Height of letters
- Description
- two non-joining fragments of sandstone stela: fragment (a) – upper part, fragment (b) – bottom part; epigraphic field framed by incised line on all sides
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- incomplete; fragment (a) with complete top margin and upper parts of both side margins; fragment (b) with almost complete bottom margin and lower parts of both side margins; lower right corner broken off
- Date
- 1 March 764 or 1 March 766
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
indiction
Era of Diocletian
- Dating formulae
- ⲙ⸌ⲏ⸍ ⲫⲁⲙ⸌ⲉ⸍ⲛⲱⲑ ⲉ ⲓⲛ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲃ ⲇⲓⲟⳤ ⲩ̄︤ⲡ︦ⲃ
- Transcription
- "in the month of Phamenoth, (day) 5, in the 2nd indiction, (year from) Diocletian 482" (ll. x+14 – x+15)
- Months
- ⲫⲁⲙ⸌ⲉ⸍ⲛⲱⲑ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- © The Trustees of the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA408
- Image
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- Source
- O. Brit. Mus. Copt., pl. IX, no. 408
- Image
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- Latest edition
- Ochała forthcoming (b), no. 1
- Other editions
- Birch 1841, p. 368, no. 7 (fragment [b]); O. Brit. Mus. Copt. 1, p. 10, no. 5, pl. 9.408 (fragment [b]); I. Lefebvre 668 (fragment [b]); I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 23 (fragment [b]); Žabkar 1967, p. 19, no. 1, fig. 28, pl. 30a (fragment [a])
- Other publications
- Grumel 1965, p. 96, no. 16 (fragment [b], on date); Ricke 1967, pp. 15–16 (fragment [a]); Bagnall – Worp 1981, p. 53 (fragment [b], on date); CSBE(2), p. 75 (fragment [b]); CSCN, table 11 on p. 72, p. 117 (fragment [b]); van der Vliet – Worp 2015, pp. 36–8, no. 6 (fragment [a])
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