Text 1645
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- Anchorite's Grotto, south end of west wall
- Excavation no.
- no. 26
- Present location
- not preserved
- Museum no.
- Medium
- wall
- Technique
- painted (dipinto)
- Type of text
- literary: apocryphal
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- letter of Christ to Abgar, king of Edessa
- Date
- circa 738
- Notes
- Material
- plaster
- Object dimensions
- Text dimensions
- not recorded
- Object colour
- Text colour
- reddish/brownish
- Lines
- 24
- Height of letters
- Description
- panel belonging to decoration of hermit's cell; enclosed within painted frame
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete; minor lacunae
- Date
- circa 738
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- Griffith 1927, pl. 65.1
- Image
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- Source
- Griffith 1927, pl. 71.26
- Image
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- Latest edition
- Griffith 1927, pp. 88–89 (no. 26), pls. 65.1, 71.26
- Other editions
- Sayce 1898, pp. 174–175
- Other publications
- Pietschmann 1899, p. 133; Obłuski 2019, table 5, sub 1; Łajtar 2020b, Appendix no. F9 (cf. p. 189)
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