Text 626

Provenance
Kalabsha (probably)
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
unknown
Excavation no.
 
Present location
British Museum, London
Museum no.
EA825
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Coptic
Content
epitaph of man Paulos, meizoteros
Date
probably 800–899
Notes
 
Material
marble
Object dimensions
H: 39; W: 33
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
14
Height of letters
 
Description
fragment of rectangular slab
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
much worn in middle part, left lower corner broken off
Date
probably 800–899
Chronological systems
Era of Diocletian
Dating formulae
[---] ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗ[---]
Transcription
"[(in the year) from] Diocletian [ ]" (l. 14)
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
meizoteros (ⲡⲙⲉⲓⲍⲟⲧⲉⲣⲟⲥ): ll. 3–4
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
© The Trustees of the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA825
Image
Image not available
Source
Young 1821, pl. 10
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
SB Kopt. 3 1645 (photo available at http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=172306001&objectId=124463&partId=1)
Other editions
Young 1821, p. 160 (no. 8), pl. 10; O. Brit. Mus. Copt. 1, p. 11 (no. 4), pl. 10 (no. 825, incomplete); Junker 1925b, p. 122 (supplements Hall); SB Kopt. 1 432; Van der Vliet 2002, pp. 185–91, pl. after p. 186
Other publications
Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 41, n. 4; Curto et alii 1965, p. 85 (no. 40); Žabkar 1967, p. 16; van der Vliet – Worp 2015, pp. 39–40; Berkes 2017, p. 115, table on p. 119
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