Text 1613

Provenance
Faras
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
Griffith's cemetery 4, tomb 66
Excavation no.
 
Present location
Oxford (?)
Museum no.
 
Medium
lamp
Technique
casting
Type of text
name of divine entity/saint
Language
Greek
Content
name of abba Pesynthios
Date
600–799
Notes
 
Material
ceramic
Object dimensions
not recorded
Text dimensions
not recorded
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
1
Height of letters
 
Description
inscription on elongated lamp running around central panel surrounding feed-hole; placed between two rows of dots
Decorative elements
rosette around feed-hole
State of preservation
object complete; inscription complete
Date
600–799
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
Gabra 1989, pl. 11a
Image
Image not available
Source
Griffith 1927, pl. 61.2
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
Gabra 1989, pp. 178–81, pl. 11a
Other editions
Griffith 1927, pp. 75, 109, pls. 58.5, 61.2; SEG 39 1712 a
Other publications
Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 281 (no. 3); 4, pl. 181.5
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