cathedral, walled-up arcade between south aisle and south vestibule, north face
Excavation no.
E 251h.4 (neg. nos. Fa.62/3.0298, Fa.62/3.0299, Fa.62/3.1096)
Present location
not preserved (?)
Museum no.
Medium
wall
Technique
painted (dipinto)
Type of text
visitor's inscription
Language
Greek/Old Nubian
Content
perhaps visitor's inscription left by more than one person (?)
Date
1200–1299
Notes
Material
plaster
Object dimensions
Text dimensions
not recorded
Object colour
Text colour
black
Lines
9
Height of letters
Description
painted inscription divided into two parts by horizontal line between lines 4 and 5, but evidently written by the same hand, although lower part in smaller letters
Decorative elements
large cross to the left (ll. 3–4)
State of preservation
incomplete; right and lower parts lost
Date
1200–1299
Chronological systems
Dating formulae
Transcription
Months
Weakdays
Feasts
Loading...
Offices & titles
deacon of (Church of) Jesus (ⲓ̄ⲥ︦ ⲇⲓⲁ⸌ⲕ⸍): l. 3 cleric (ⲕⲗⲓ̈): l. 4 toma[---] of Great (Church of) Jesus in Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲓ̄ⲥ︦ ⲙⲉ⸌ⲅ⸍ ⲧⲱⲙⲁ[---] ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): ll. 6–7
Toponyms & ethnonyms
(Church of) Jesus (ⲓ̄ⲥ︦): l. 3 Great (Church of) Jesus in Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲓ̄ⲥ︦ ⲙⲉ⸌ⲅ⸍ ⲧⲱⲙⲁ[---] ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): ll. 6–7
Jakobielski et alii 2017, p. 275, fig. on p. 274 (no. 80)
Other editions
Jakobielski 1974, pp. 298–9 (no. 33b), fig. on p. 299; Rostkowska 1982, pp. 210–11
Other publications
I. Faras Copt., p. 177, n. 23; Michałowski 1974a, pp. 228–9 (no. 52), fig. on p. 231; Catalogue Vienna 2002, pp. 87–9 (no. 21), fig. on p. 89; Welsby 2002, p. 229; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, pp. 162–3, with fig. on p. 164; CIEN 6, no. 62
Jakobielski 1974, pp. 297–298 (no. 31), fig. on p. 297; Kubińska 1976a, pp. 451–455, pl. 8
Other publications
I. Faras Copt., p. 177, n. 23; Michałowski 1974a, pp. 240–242 (no. 55), fig. on p. 241; Scholz 2001, p. 199, fig. 3; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, pp. 160–161 (with fig.); CIEN 6, no. 61 and p. 321 (transcirption and translation after Jakobielski et alii 2017, p. 271); Łaptaś 2020a, p. 731 (translation), fig. 14
Michałowski 1966a, pl. 15.2; Michałowski 1967, pp. 161–2, pls. 87–9; I. Faras Copt., p. 177, n. 23; Michałowski 1974a, pp. 234–40 (no. 54), fig. on p. 236; Catalogue Vienna 2002, pp. 89–91 (no. 22), fig. on p. 90; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, p. 82, fig. on p. 73; CIEN 6, no. 60
Jakobielski et alii 2017, p. 275, fig. on p. 274 (no. 80)
Other editions
I. Faras Copt., p. 180, fig. 62; Jakobielski 1974, pp. 298–9 (no. 33a), fig. on p. 298; Rostkowska 1982, pp. 210–11
Other publications
Michałowski 1974a, pp. 228–9 (no. 52), fig. on p. 231; Catalogue Vienna 2002, pp. 87–9 (no. 21), fig. on p. 89; I. Faras Greek 46; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, pp. 162–3, with fig. on p. 164; CIEN 6, no. 62