Text 1818
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- cathedral, staircase, east wall; below painting no. 88 (Virgin Eleusa)
- Excavation no.
- N 281a.2
- Present location
- National Museum, Warsaw
- Museum no.
- 234045
- Medium
- wall
- Technique
- painted (dipinto)
- Type of text
- commemorative inscription
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- inscription commemorating abba Elias, bishop (of Pachoras)
- Date
- 926–952
- Notes
- dated on the basis of the bishops' list
- Material
- plaster
- Object dimensions
- Text dimensions
- H: ?; W: 53
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 1
- Height of letters
- Description
- painted inscription; later painting partly covers suprascribed letters
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- incomplete; lacuna in ending of line
- Date
- 926–952
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- bishop (ⲉⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍): l. 1
abba (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): l. 1
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- National Museum, Warsaw: https://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/496359
- Image
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- Source
- Jakobielski 1974, fig. on p. 303
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. Faras Greek 20, fig. 26
- Other editions
- Jakobielski 1966c, p. 161, fig. 3; Michałowski 1967, p. 81; I. Faras Copt., pp. 109–10, fig. 27; Jakobielski 1974, pp. 300–1 (no. 35), fig. on p. 300
- Other publications
- Gołgowski 1970, p. 391 (Polish translation); Michałowski 1974a, pp. 256–8 (no. 59), fig. on p. 257; Jakobielski 1975a, p. 327; Catalogue Vienna 2002, p. 93 (no. 25), fig. on p. 94; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, pp. 86–7 (with fig.); Jakobielski et alii 2017, p. 221, figs. on pp. 220–1 (transcritpion and translation)
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