Text 1817
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- cathedral, south vestibule, south wall; accompanying painting no. 110 (Bishop Kyros)
- Excavation no.
- inv. no. 110 (painting); neg. nos. Fa.63/4.0002, Fa.63/4.0003, Fa.63/4.1293, Fa.63/4.1294
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 24349
- Medium
- wall
- Technique
- painted (dipinto)
- Type of text
- legend
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- name of abba Kyros, bishop (of Pachoras), serving as legend to his representation
- Date
- circa 866–circa 870
- Notes
- dated on the basis of the bishops' list
the same hand as in DBMNT 2038
- Material
- plaster
- Object dimensions
- H: 207; W: 71
- Text dimensions
- not recorded
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 1 horizontal + 3 vertical
- Height of letters
- not recorded
- Description
- inscription painted around head of standing figure of Bishop Kyros
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- nearly complete
- Date
- circa 866–circa 870
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- bishop of the metropolis (ⲉⲡⲓⲥⲕⲟⲡⲟⲥ ⲙⲏⲧⲣⲟⲡ[---]): l. 1 (horizontal)
abba (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): l. 3 (vertical)
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- Jakobielski et alii 2017, p. 193, figs. on pp. 192–3 (no. 45)
- Other editions
- Jakobielski 1966c, p. 159, fig. 2; Michałowski 1967, p. 117, pl. 37; I. Faras Copt., p. 86, fig. 13; I. Faras Greek 14, fig. 21
- Other publications
- Michałowski 1970a, il. 9; Jakobielski 1974, p. 286; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, p. 110, fig. 16
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