Text 1110
- Provenance
- Sai
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
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fragment A: reused at abandoned house in the village of Adou
fragment B: fortress - Excavation no.
- A: no number
B: S.670 - Present location
- Sai, storeroom of French mission
- Museum no.
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of Dioskoros, bishop of Sai
- Date
- probably 1100–1199
- Notes
- pronoia-type
Tsakos 2011–12 reads annual date in l. 20, but such a reading is unlikely
- Material
- marble
- Object dimensions
- A: H: 47.2; W: 45.9; Th: 6.8
B: H: 23.0; W: 27.0; Th: 61.0;
A+B: H: 61.0; W: 48.0 - Text dimensions
- Object colour
- white
- Text colour
- Lines
- 23
- Height of letters
- Description
- two joining fragments of rectangular stela (lower left corner and some of right middle part lost); epigraphic field framed by incised line leaving broad, flat outer margin; on the top margin one line of text
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary: top mostly complete, with some of upper and left margins; and lower right corner with margins
- Date
- probably 1100–1199
- Chronological systems
- Era of Diocletian
- Dating formulae
- ⲙⲡⲉⲃⲟⲧ ⲙⲉⲭⲉ̣̄[ ] ⲛ︦ⲥⲟⲩ ⲓ̣ ̣
[ⲁⲡⲟ ⲇⲓⲟ]ⲕ ⲱ︦ⲙ︦ (?) - Transcription
- "in the month of Mecheir on day 1...(?) according to the economy (?) of God", ll. 11-12
"from the Era od Diocletian years 840 (?)" l. 22 - Months
- ⲙⲉⲭⲉ̣̄[ ]
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- abba (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): l. 10
bishop of Sai (ⲉⲡⲥ̣⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲛ̄ⲍⲁⲏ): ll. 10–11 (Tsakos 2011–12: ⲉⲡⲓ̣ⲥ̣⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲛ̄ϩⲁⲏ; corr. G. Ochala)
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Sai (ⲍⲁⲏ): l. 11 (ed. pr. ⲛ̄ϩⲁⲏ; corr. G. Ochala)
- Latest edition
- Tsakos 2011–12, pp. 300–3 (no. 5), fig. 1
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Geus 2004a, pp. 112, 134, pl. 18c; Grimal – Aldy 2004, pp. 130–1, pl. 15, fig. 41; Tsakos 2015, p. 247
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