Text 1488

Provenance
Qasr Ibrim
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
cathedral (church 293), haikal, dust above pavement
Excavation no.
QI 1964 6a
Present location
British Museum, London
Museum no.
EA74116
Medium
manuscript: leaf
Technique
painted
Type of text
liturgical: hymn
Language
Greek
Content
three hymns: sticheron idiomelon on John the Baptist (recto, ll. 1–5), probably theotokion (recto, ll. 5–9), hymn on Nativity by Severus of Antioch (verso)
Date
probably 900–1199
Notes
 
Material
parchment
Object dimensions
H: 4; W: 10
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
black; red
Lines
i: 9; ii: 8
Height of letters
0.3
Description
fragment of parchment sheet
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
fragmentary; no margin preserved
Date
probably 900–1199
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
Frend – Dagras – Konoyiannis 1992, pl. 1c–d
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Source
 
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Latest edition
Frend – Dragas – Kontoyiannis 1992, pp. 122–123 (no. A.II), pl. 1c–d; Deptuła 2020 (recto)
Other editions
 
Other publications
Frend – Muirhead 1976, p. 45; Frend 1978b, p. 95; Crisci 1996, p. 125 (on palaeography); Łajtar 2014a, p. 393; Tsakos 2016, p. 643 with n. 20; Lucchesi 2008, pp. 165–178 (identification of verso, with Latin translation); Łajtar 2020b, Appendix no. QI69 & QI70 (cf. p. 187); I. Banganarti 1, pp. 121–122 (no. 2)
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