Text 1437

Provenance
Ashkeit area, Bintibirra hill
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
site SJE76; above DBMNT 1442
Excavation no.
76:7A
Present location
not preserved
Museum no.
 
Medium
rock
Technique
incised (graffito)
Type of text
visitor's inscription
Language
Greek
Content
inscription left by Merke, priest
Date
700–1499
Notes
 
Material
stone
Object dimensions
 
Text dimensions
not recorded
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
3
Height of letters
 
Description
3 lines of incised inscription; below it drawings of cattle
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
complete
Date
700–1499
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
priest (⳦ⲉ): l. 1
thegna of Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲑⲉ⸌ⲅ⸍): l. 2
Toponyms & ethnonyms
Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍): l. 2
(Church of) the Cross (ⲥⲧⲁⲩⲣⲟⲥ): l. 2
Source
Dunbar 1934, pl. II (lower)
Image
Image not available
Source
Hellström 1970, II: Corpus Y, 76:7A
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
Łajtar – Van der Vliet 1998, p. 51 (no. 13)
Other editions
Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 211; Hellström 1970, I: p. 235; II: Corpus Y, 76:7A, pl. 144.4
Other publications
Dunbar 1934, pl. 2 (lower); Säve-Söderbergh 1962, p. 84, pl. 20b; Donadoni 1967, p. 67; Łajtar 2003a, p. 153; Edwards 2006, p. 60; Edwards 2012, p. 168; Ruffini 2014a, p. 964, with n. 30
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