Text 599
- Provenance
- unknown
- Region
- unknown
- Findspot
- unknown
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
- Museum no.
- SNM 9604 (old Karima Museum no. 65)
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of Stephanos
- Date
- 27 April 795
- Notes
- reading of indiction suggested by Łajtar (personal communication); 3rd indiction would be correct
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 33; W: 33; Th: 6-7
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 8
- Height of letters
- 2-3
- Description
- upper part of slab
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- text relatively well preserved only in first 7 lines
- Date
- 27 April 795
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
Era of the Martyrs
Era of Diocletian
indiction
- Dating formulae
- ⲙ⸌ⲏ⸍ ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲛ ⲃ̣̄ ⲓ̣ⲛ̣⸌ⲇ̣⸍ ̣̄ ̣ ̣ [---] ⲫ̄ⲓ︦ⲁ̄︥
(transcription by Ochała) - Transcription
- "in the month of Pachon, day (2), in the [ ] indiction, [year from Diocletian] 511 (?)" (ll. 7–8)
- Months
- ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲛ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- Tsakos 2009a, pp. 225–7 (no. 6), fig. 5
- Other editions
- Other publications
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