Text 1564
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- Rivergate Church, lintel above entrance to prothesis
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- unknown
- Museum no.
- Medium
- architectural element
- Technique
- incised (inscription)
- Type of text
- name of divine entity/saint
- Language
- unidentified
- Content
- two monograms: one designating Virgin Mary, the other Gabriel
- Date
- probably 550–699
- Notes
- Material
- stone
- Object dimensions
- not recorded
- Text dimensions
- not recorded
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- Height of letters
- Description
- two monograms incised on lintel, on two sides of central decoration
- Decorative elements
- lintel decorated in relief with centrally located Greek cross enclosed in circle and rosetta on its right side
- State of preservation
- object incomplete – left side broken off; inscription complete
- Date
- probably 550–699
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- Griffith 1926, pl. 51.3
- Image
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- Source
- Griffith 1926, pl. 53.3
- Image
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- Latest edition
- Griffith 1926, p. 83 (no. 2), pls. 51.3, 53.3
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Monneret de VIllard 1935–57: 1, p. 197, fig. 189; 2, pl. 88; I. Faras Copt., p. 50, n. 74; Welsby 2002, p. 219, fig. 88
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