Text 1835
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- cathedral, north aisle, north-east corner; accompanying painting no. 19 (Queen Mother Martha)
- Excavation no.
- inv. no. 19 (painting); neg. nos. Fa.63/4.1279, Fa.63/4.1280, Fa.63/4.1281
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 24318
- Medium
- wall
- Technique
- painted (dipinto)
- Type of text
- legend
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- names of Queen Mother Martha, Virgin Mary, and Jesus Christ serving as legend to representation of Martha protected by Mary with Child
- Date
- 1000–1025
- Notes
- Material
- plaster
- Object dimensions
- Text dimensions
- not recorded
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 1: 3; 2: 1 vertical + 3 horizontal; 3: 1
- Height of letters
- not recorded
- Description
- three inscriptions painted in black ink: (1) to the right of Queen Martha’s head; (2) on both sides of Mary’s crown; (3) above Jesus Child
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete
- Date
- 1000–1025
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- queen mother (ⲙ̄ⲏ̄ⲣ̄ ⲃ̄ⲗ̄ⲥ̄): l. 1
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- Jakobielski et alii 2017, p. 249, figs. on pp. 248, 250, 252 (no. 71)
- Other editions
- Michałowski 1967, pp. 154–7, pls. 77–9; I. Faras Copt., pp. 113, 130; I. Faras Greek 68, fig. 61
- Other publications
- Michałowski 1964a, p. 203, pl. 42b; Michałowski 1964b, p. 91, fig. 45; Jakobielski 1969, p. 503, fig. 6; Jakobielski 1975a, p. 330; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, p. 117, fig. 21
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