Text 856
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- Griffith's cemetery 4, near tombs 58 and 59
- Excavation no.
- 4/58
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 7883
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised & painted
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 600–1199
- Notes
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 8; W: 6; Th: 4
- Text dimensions
- H: 3; W: 13
- Object colour
- grey-pinkish
- Text colour
- red (traces)
- Lines
- 6
- Height of letters
- Description
- roughly rectangular fragment of stela; flat left and lower margin
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; lower left corner with beginnings of lines and portions of left and lower margins; upper part lost
- Date
- 600–1199
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Copt. 13, pl. 9
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Griffith 1927, p. 74
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