Text 531
- Provenance
- Tafa
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- near north temple, in front of south facade
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo (now probably Coptic Museum)
- Museum no.
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised & painted
- Type of text
- foundation inscription
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- foundation stela of church in temple in Tafa, mentioning King Merkourios
- Date
- 14 December 710
- Notes
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 79; W: 42.5; Th: 16
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- red
- Lines
- 15
- Height of letters
- Description
- rectangular slab
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- almost complete - small part of lower right corner broken off; two small lacunas in middle of lower part
- Date
- 14 December 710
- Chronological systems
- regnal years
Egyptian calendar
indiction
Era of Diocletian
- Dating formulae
- ⲙ⸌ⲏ⸍ ⲭⲟⲓ̈ⲁⲭ ⲓ̈ⲏ ⲓ̈ⲛⲇⲓ ⲑ ⲏⲡⲓ̈ ⲧⲟⲩ ⲇⲓ̈ⲟⲕⲗⲏⲧⲓ̈ⲁⲛⲟⲩ ⲩⲕⲍ † ⲉⲡⲓ̈ ⲧⲟⲩ ⲓⲅ ⲉⲧ ⲧⲟⲩ ⲫⲓⲗ/⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲃⲁⲥⲓ̈ⲗ/ ⲙⲉⲣⲕⲟⲩⲣⲓ̈ⲟⲩ
ⲉⲡⲓ̈ ⲧⲟⲩ ⲉⲧⲟⲩ ⲉ : ⲉⲡⲓ̈ ⲧⲟⲩ ⲑⲉⲟⲫⲩⲗⲋ ⲡⲣⲋ ⲓ̈ⲱⲁⲛⲛⲟⲩⲥ
ⲉⲛ ⲙ⸌ⲏ⸍ ⲭ[ⲟⲓ]ⲁⲭ ⲓ̈ⲏ - Transcription
- "in the month of Choiak, (day) 18, in the 9th indiction, (in the year) from Diocletian 427, in the 13th year of the (...) king Merkourios" (ll. 3–8)
"in the 5th year of the (...) priest Ioannes" (ll. 9–12)
"in the month of Choiak, (day) 18" (l. 14) - Months
- ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲭ, ⲭ[ⲟⲓ]ⲁⲭ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- king (ⲃⲁⲥⲓⲗ): l. 7
priest (ⲡⲣ⳽): l. 11
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- Łajtar 2009b, pp. 83–89
- Other editions
- Maspero (J.) 1909–1910, pp. 17–20; Zucker 1912, pp. 164–165; SB 1 1594; Kraus 1930, pp. 114–115; Felle 2003, pp. 81–85; SEG 53 2026
- Other publications
- Roeder 1911, pl. 90; Monneret de Villard 1935–1957: 1, p. 26; 2, pl. 16; Michałowski 1964a, pp. 199–200; Munro-Hay 1982/3, pp. 97–99; Richter 2002, p. 153; CSBE(2), p. 73; CSCN, pp. 64–65, 74, 121, 210, 211, 212; Werner 2013, p. 100; SEG 59 1906; Hendrickx 2019, pp. 8 (text and translation), 10–13 (discussion)
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