Text 1493

Provenance
Qasr Ibrim
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
cathedral (church 293), nave, dust above pavement
Excavation no.
QI 1964 6b
Present location
British Museum, London
Museum no.
EA74117
Medium
manuscript: leaf
Technique
painted
Type of text
liturgical: hymn
Language
Greek
Content
hymn to Virgin Mary
Date
probably 900–1199
Notes
 
Material
parchment
Object dimensions
not recorded
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
black; red
Lines
i: 20; ii: 16
Height of letters
0.3
Description
fragmentary sheet of parchment
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
fragmentary; portions of upper and side margins preserved; lacunary; ink very much obliterated
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. 1e–f
Image
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Source
 
Image
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Latest edition
Frend – Dragas – Kontoyiannis 1992, pp. 123–124 (no. A.III), pl. 1e–f
Other editions
 
Other publications
Crisci 1996, pp. 125–126 (on palaeography); Łajtar 2014a, p. 393; Tsakos 2016, p. 643 with n. 20; Łajtar 2020b, Appendix no. QI73 (cf. p. 187); I. Banganarti 1, p. 123 (no. 4)
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