Text 1753
- Provenance
- Qasr el-Wizz
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- monastery, room II-E, south-west corner
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Nubia Museum, Aswan
- Museum no.
- Special Number 168 (Coptic Museum inv. no. 6566)
- Medium
- manuscript: codex
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- literary: apocryphal
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- two apocryphal texts: Words of the Saviour under the Cross and Dance of the Saviour around the Cross
- Date
- probably 800–899
- Notes
- Material
- parchment
- Object dimensions
- H: 16.7; W: c. 10
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 9–13 (p. 23: 5)
- Height of letters
- Description
- codex of 17 leaves (34 pages)
- Decorative elements
- illuminated: crosses on pp. 1 and 34; decorative frame on p. 2 (beginning of text); illuminations on outer margin (pp. 6–8, 10, 12, 16, 18, 20, 24)
- State of preservation
- nearly complete; pp. 19–34 somewhat damaged
- Date
- probably 800–899
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- Tsakos – Bull – Abercrombie – Thomassen 2013, pp. 193–209
- Other editions
- Hubai 2006; Hubai 2009; Suciu 2013, passim, esp. 30–33 (description), 157–160 (transcription of fol. 12v–17r), 170–171 (translation of fol. 12v–17r)
- Other publications
- Hughes 1965–6, pp. 10–13, fig. on cover; Scanlon 1968, pp. 65, 67–69 (description), fig. 4; Scanlon 1972, p. 18, pl. 11.1–2; Gabra 1993, fig. on p. 90; Gabra 1994, p. 263 with nn. 2–3; Hubai 2001, pp. 309–323, figs. 1–2; Emmel 2003, pp. 22–28, 52–53; Emmel 2005, pp. 86–95; Brakmann 2006, p. 293; Piovanelli 2012, passim; Dilley 2013, passim; Tsakos 2016, pp. 643–644; Obłuski 2019, table 5, sub 9; Łajtar 2020b, Appendix no. 10 (cf. pp. 189, 195–196)
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