Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Berlin (previously Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin)
Museum no.
9999 (old no. ÄM 1492)
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Coptic
Content
epitaph of Chael, priest and archimandrite
Date
700–999
Notes
pronoia type
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 39; W: 24.5; Th: 12–13
Text dimensions
Object colour
light brown
Text colour
Lines
11
Height of letters
1.6–2.5
Description
Roughly rectangular slab, almost complete apart from the lower left corner which was chipped off damaging the last line of the text. Surface heavily worn and barely legible in many places.
Decorative elements
State of preservation
incomplete; lower part broken off; surface barely legible in places
Date
700–999
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
Dating formulae
ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲣⲏ ⲓ̣̄
Transcription
"Mesore 10", l. 8
Months
ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲣⲏ
Weakdays
Feasts
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Offices & titles
father (= abbot) ([ⲡ]ⲉⲛⲉⲓⲱⲧ): ll. 6–7 priest (⳦̣): l. 7 archimandrite (ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍): l. 7