Text 1487
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- cathedral (church 293), haikal, dust above pavement
- Excavation no.
- QI 1964 4/7a–b
- Present location
- British Museum, London
- Museum no.
- EA74118
- Medium
- manuscript: leaf
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- literary: hagiographic
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- Martyrdom of St Merkurios
- Date
- probably 900–1099
- Notes
- Material
- parchment
- Object dimensions
- H: 20; W: 12
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black; red (proper names)
- Lines
- (1): i: 22; ii: 22
(2): i: 24; ii: 23 - Height of letters
- 0.5
- Description
- two pages from parchment codex
- Decorative elements
- one side margin on each page decorated with short wavy lines in black and red
- State of preservation
- incomplete; upper part torn off as well as virtually all of one side margin
- Date
- probably 900–1099
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- © The Trustees of the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA74118
- Image
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- Source
- © The Trustees of the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA74118
- Image
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- Latest edition
- Frend 1986, pp. 66–70, pls. 2–3
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Frend 1972, p. 228; Frend – Muirhead 1976, p. 45; Frend 1978b, p. 95; Frend 1996, p. 309; Crisci 1996, pp. 123–124, pl. 100 (on palaeography); Tsakos 2016, p. 643; Łajtar 2020b, Appendix no. QI47 (cf. p. 187)
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