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Provenance
Faras
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
Griffith's cemetery 5, tomb 5
Excavation no.
 
Present location
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Museum no.
1912.177
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
W: 7.2; L: 10; H: 4.8
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
 
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. 11b
Image
Image not available
Source
Griffith 1927, pl. 61.2
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
Gabra 1989, pp. 178–81, pl. 11b–c
Other editions
Griffith 1927, p. 75, pl. 61.2; SEG 39 1712 b
Other publications
 
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