Text 1319

Provenance
Qasr el-Wizz
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
church, baptistery, south and west walls of basin
Excavation no.
 
Present location
not preserved
Museum no.
 
Medium
wall
Technique
painted (dipinto)
Type of text
literary: biblical
Language
Greek/Coptic/Old Nubian
Content
Daniel 3:57–81 (Benedicite) + subscription of scribe, Petrokori
Date
900–999
Notes
in Coptic only the pronoun ⲁⲛⲟⲕ in the author's subscript
Material
plaster
Object dimensions
 
Text dimensions
not recorded
Object colour
 
Text colour
black
Lines
A: 18; B: 6; C: 1
Height of letters
 
Description
inscription in three parts: longer part (A) on S wall, shorter part (B) on W wall; subscription of scribe (C) on W wall, above B; text consists of Greek and Old Nubian verses written alternately
Decorative elements
verses in part A separated by horizontal lines
State of preservation
complete
Date
900–999
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
Barns 1974, pl. 40.1
Image
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Source
Barns 1974, pl. 40.2
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
Browne 2004b, pp. 54–55
Other editions
Barns 1974, pp. 206–211, pl. 40.1–2; Browne 1989a, pp. 74–77, 92–93
Other publications
Scanlon 1970, p. 33, pl. 38.2; Browne 1994b, pp. 78–80; Browne 1998c, pp. 25, 29; Brakmann 2006, pp. 293, 324; Łajtar 2015–2016, p. 131 (no. 42); Obłuski 2019, pp. 222, 225, table 3, sub 10; Łajtar 2020b, Appendix no. F1 (cf. pp. 189, 195)
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