Text 1109
- Provenance
- Sai
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- fortress
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
- Museum no.
- Acc. No. E.127.1903
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek/Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of Kerikos, bishop (+ Psalm 19:2-4)
- Date
- 700–899
- Notes
- epitaph in Coptic, Psalm in Greek
- Material
- marble
- Object dimensions
- H: 56.5; W: 53.5; Th: 10.2
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 13 + line on the rim
- Height of letters
- Description
- roughly circular slab; main text (Coptic) enclosed within two incised circular lines, between which text in Greek is inscribed; edges rough; back roughly dressed; apparently reused as quern; ruling
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete, but surface much worn, especially in centre
- Date
- 700–899
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- "on day nineteen of the month [---]", ll. 6–7
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- bishop (ⲉⲡ]ⲓ̣ⲥ̣ⲕ̣ⲟⲡⲟⲥ): l. 9
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- I. Fitzwilliam, fig. on p. 170
- Image
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- Source
- I. Fitzwilliam, fig. on p. 171
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. Fitzwilliam 115, figs. on pp. 170, 171
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Burkitt 1930, pp. 210–211; Monneret de Villard 1935–1957: 1, p. 239; Boyaval 1972, p. 20; Łajtar 2006a, pp. 92–93; Tsakos 2011–2012, p. 299 (no. 1); Łajtar 2015–2016, p. 128 (no. 7)
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