Text 756
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
-
two upper fragments: in fill of tomb T2 (296)
lower fragment: cathedral cemetery terrace (plaza 758), loose fill W of S church (church 294) - Excavation no.
- 66.2.22/16 (reg. no. 66/41)
- Present location
- Birmingham City Museum
- Museum no.
- 556.69
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised & painted
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- fragment of epitaph of Petrou, bishop of Kourte
- Date
- probably 1000–1199
- Notes
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 44.5; W: 29; Th: 7.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- pale orange
- Text colour
- Lines
- 11
- Height of letters
- 0.8–2
- Description
- upper and right part (glued of three fragments) of round-topped stela; epigraphic filed framed by raised border in form of aedicula, with flat outer margin; inscription above rounded top (on flat upper margin) and on the base of tympanum
- Decorative elements
- aedicula-type decoration: 2 columns and semicircular tympanum, which has semi-rosette with 7 painted petals painted green and red
- State of preservation
- complete top with right side of stela with endings of lines and portions of upper and right margins; left and lower part of the stone lacking
- Date
- probably 1000–1199
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- bishop of Kourte (ⲉⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲕⲟⲩⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍): l. 9
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Kourte (ⲕⲟⲩⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍): l. 9
Phrim (= Ibrim) (ⲫⲣⲙ︥): l. 10
(Church of) Michael of Da.d( ) (o ⲉ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲭⲡⲑ ⲇⲁ ̣⸌ⲇ⸍): l. 10
Da.d( ) (ⲇⲁ ̣⸌ⲇ⸍): l. 10
- Latest edition
- I. QI 23, fig. on p. 69
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Plumley 1970, p. 131, il. 107; Adams 2010, p. 305 (inventory); Łajtar – van der Vliet 2010, p. 716; I. QI, n. 111, on pp. 92–3 (sub 7); Richter 2013, p. 148
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