Text 1708

Provenance
Abd el-Qadir
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
church, room B, southwest corner, accompanying painting no. 12
Excavation no.
dip. 12
Present location
Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.
SNM 24325
Medium
wall
Technique
painted (dipinto)
Type of text
dedicatory inscription
Language
Greek
Content
perhaps dedicatory inscription by Mariankouda, eparch of Nobadia and domestikos of Pachoras
Date
1270–1279
Notes
 
Material
plaster
Object dimensions
 
Text dimensions
not recorded
Object colour
 
Text colour
black
Lines
4
Height of letters
 
Description
4 lines of inscription painted on the left side of painted figure of a Nubian dignitary; text framed by line painted in black
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
fragmentary
Date
1270–1279
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
eparch of Nobadia ([ⲙ]ⲉⲅ ⲉⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲛⲟⲃ[ⲁ]⸌ⲇ⸍): ll. 3–4
domestikos of Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲇ̣̄⸌ⲱ̣⸍ [ⲡⲁ]ⲭ̣̄): ll. 4–5
Toponyms & ethnonyms
Nobadia (ⲛⲟⲃ⸌ⲇ⸍): l. 4
Pachoras (= Faras) ([ⲡⲁ]ⲭ̣̄): l. 5
Source
Jakobielski 2013, fig. 5
Image
Image not available
Source
Griffith 1928a, pl. 29.12
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
Jakobielski 2013, pp. 332–335, figs. 4–5
Other editions
Griffith 1928a, pp. 70–71 (no. 12), pl. 29.12; Monneret de VIllard 1935–1957: 1, p. 214 (no. 6)
Other publications
Rostkowska 1982, p. 211 (partial transcription and translation); Godlewski 1996, p. 30, fig. 1; Łaptaś 2012, p. 21; CIEN 4, no. 51
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