Text 1649

Provenance
Faras
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
Anchorite's Grotto, S part of W wall; below text no. 28a (DBMNT 1648)
Excavation no.
no. 28b
Present location
not preserved
Museum no.
 
Medium
wall
Technique
painted (dipinto)
Type of text
subliterary: magical
Language
Coptic
Content
sator-square (entitled 'Names of the nails of Christ')
Date
circa 738
Notes
 
Material
plaster
Object dimensions
 
Text dimensions
not recorded
Object colour
 
Text colour
reddish/brownish
Lines
7
Height of letters
 
Description
part of panel belonging to decoration of hermit's cell; placed in the same panel as no. 28a (DBMNT 1648), below it
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
incomplete; left margin damaged
Date
circa 738
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
 
Image
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Source
Griffith 1927, pl. 71.28b
Image
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Latest edition
Griffith 1927, p. 89 (no. 28b), pl. 71.28b
Other editions
Sayce 1898, p. 176 (column II, ll. 7–13)
Other publications
Pietschmann 1899, pp. 133–4
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