Text 1563

Provenance
Faras
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
'Potteries', room 6, east and south walls
Excavation no.
 
Present location
not preserved
Museum no.
 
Medium
wall
Technique
painted (dipinto)
Type of text
subliterary: magical
Language
Coptic
Content
perhaps sator-palindrome followed by subscription of scribe (?)
Date
600–1199
Notes
 
Material
plaster
Object dimensions
 
Text dimensions
not recorded
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
1
Height of letters
 
Description
long inscription painted against background of white painted-band running around the room
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
fragmentary; beginning and fragment of middle part lost
Date
600–1199
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
Griffith 1926, pl. 43.1
Image
Image not available
Source
Griffith 1926, pl. 42.2
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
Griffith 1926, pp. 63–4, pls. 41.3, 42.2, 43.1
Other editions
 
Other publications
Adams 1961, p. 41 with n. 27; Obłuski 2019, p. 57
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