Text 1486
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- cathedral (church 293), haikal, dust above pavement; near fallen column
- Excavation no.
- 1: QI 1964 15/1
2: QI 1964 4/11
3: QI 1964 4/14b
4: QI 1964 4/9
5: unknown - Present location
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Museum no.
- Medium
- manuscript: leaf
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- literary: hagiographic
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- Martyrdom of St George
- Date
- probably 900–1099
- Notes
- Material
- parchment
- Object dimensions
- 1: not recorded
2: H: 17.7; W: 9.5
3: not recorded
4: H: 13.5; W: 6.21
5: H: 18; W: 14.5 - Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black; red (saint's name and fill of round letters)
- Lines
- 1: i: 7; ii: 7
2: i: 18; ii: 17
3: i: 7; ii: 7
4: i: 22; ii: 20
5: i: 20; ii: 21 - Height of letters
- 0.55
- Description
- 5 fragmentary cards of 1 codex; pagination in upper (2: pages 14–15) and lower margin (3 & 4: 19, 22, 23)
- Decorative elements
- outer margin decorated with series of short wavy lines in black and red
- State of preservation
- (1) lower corner of card with portions of lower and one side margin; (2) upper part of card with almost complete upper margin and portion of one side margin; lacunary; (3) one lower corner with portions of lower and side margins; (4) fragmentary; about quarter of upper part missing nearly complete; upper margin and one inner lower corner torn of; (5) nearly complete; upper margin line missing; all fragments bear traces of burning
- Date
- probably 900–1099
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- Frend 1989, pl. 1a–g
- Image
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- Source
- Frend 1989, pl. 2a–d
- Image
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- Latest edition
- Frend 1989, pp. 89–104, pls. 1b–g, 2a–d
- Other editions
- Frend 1978a, pp. 297–306, figs. 2–5 (fr. 3 & 5); Frend 1982, pp. 79–86 (fr. 2)
- Other publications
- Frend – Muirhead 1976, p. 45; Frend 1978b, p. 95; Baumeister 1982, pp. 176–187; Frend 1996, p. 309, pl. before p. 317; Crisci 1996, pp. 121–122, pls. 99 and 101a (on palaeography); Tsakos 2016, p. 642; Łajtar 2020b, Appendix no. QI48 (cf. p. 187)
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