Text 1592
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- Church on the Mastaba Field
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- British Museum, London
- Museum no.
- EA1601
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of Theophil, deacon (formerly epitaph of Theoria)
- Date
- 600–1199
- Notes
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 30; W: 25
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 13
- Height of letters
- Description
- fragment of rectangular slab
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- incomplete; lower part broken off
- Date
- 600–1199
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- brother (= monk) (ⲡⲉⲛⲥⲟⲛ): l. 6
deacon (ⲇⲓⲁⲕ⸌ⲟ⸍): l. 6
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- © The Trustees of the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA1601
- Image
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- Source
- Griffith 1927, pl. 42.1
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. Faras Copt., pp. 170–1, fig. 50 (photo available at http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=366335001&objectId=124282&partId=1)
- Other editions
- Griffith 1927, pp. 62, 104–5, pl. 42.1
- Other publications
- Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 193; NOM 1, no. 2, fig. 2 (on name); CIEN 7, no. 37
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