Databases
Texts
IM References
Names
Name variants
People
Guidelines
General
Texts
IM references
Names
Name variants
People
Vocabularies
Acknowledgements
Contact us
Search
DBMNT
Texts
1362
Text no.
Text 1362
Stable url
Trismegistos
TM
text 369911
Basic info
Technical info
Chronology
Names
Offices & titles
Toponyms & ethnonyms
Illustration
Bibliography
Concordances
Related
Provenance
Dongola
Region
Makuria
Findspot
monastery on kom H, north-west annex
Excavation no.
D.36/02
Present location
Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.
SNM 31490
Medium
architectural element
Technique
incised & painted (inscription)
Type of text
commemorative inscription
Language
Greek
Content
inscription on decorative window grille probably commemorating donor (name not preserved), archpriest and archistylites
Date
circa 1025–1075
Notes
Material
terracotta
Object dimensions
H: 38; W: 61
Text dimensions
not recorded
Object colour
Text colour
black (?)
Lines
1
Height of letters
Description
inscription incised and painted on upper part of frame of window grille
Decorative elements
window grille adorned with sculpted and painted representations of birds
State of preservation
fragmentary; put together from many pieces; inscription incomplete - large lacuna at the beginning
Date
circa 1025–1075
Chronological systems
Dating formulae
Transcription
Months
Weakdays
Feasts
Loading...
Offices & titles
abba (ⲁ̄ⲃ̣̄): l. 1
archpriest (ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍⳦): l. 1
archistylites ([ⲁⲣ]ⲭⲏⲥⲧⲩⲗⲏⲧⲏⲥ): l. 1
Toponyms & ethnonyms
Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Source
Jakobielski 2008, fig. 9
Image
Full-size image
Source
Jakobielski 2008, fig. 9
Image
Full-size image
Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Latest edition
Jakobielski 2005b, p. 121, fig. 16
Other editions
Jakobielski 2003, p. 213, n. 8, fig. 2
Other publications
Łajtar 2002, p. 176; Catalogue Warsaw 2006, pp. 50–51, no. 4, fig. on p. 51; Jakobielski 2008, p. 288, fig. 9; Łajtar 2014d, p. 289; Łajtar 2020a, p. 17
Loading...
Loading...