Text 1841
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- cathedral, south vestibule, east wall; accompanying painting no. 68 (anchorite Melas)
- Excavation no.
- inv. no. 68 (painting)
- Present location
- National Museum, Warsaw
- Museum no.
- 234754
- Medium
- wall
- Technique
- painted (dipinto)
- Type of text
- legend
- Language
- Greek/Coptic
- Content
- name of Melas, anchorite, serving as legend to his representation
- Date
- 1000–1025
- Notes
- the same hand as in DBMNT 1819
- Material
- plaster
- Object dimensions
- Text dimensions
- H: 11; W: 18 (2nd part)
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 1: 2; 2: 3
- Height of letters
- Description
- two identical inscriptions accompanying figure of Anchorite Melas: (1) painted above his head; (2) to the left
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary
- Date
- 1000–1025
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- I. Faras Copt., fig. 39a–b
- Image
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- Source
- Jakobielski 1974, fig. + p. 195
- Image
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- Latest edition
- Jakobielski et alii 2017, p. 307 + fig. (no. 94)
- Other editions
- I. Faras. Copt., p. 130, fig. 39a–b; Jakobielski 1974, p. 293 (no. 20) + fig.; I. Faras Greek 95, fig. 84; Łukaszewicz 1990, pp. 549–56 (transcription on p. 555), fig. 4
- Other publications
- Jakobielski 1966c, p. 165, fig. 5; Michałowski 1967, p. 113; Michałowski 1974a, pp. 217–19 (no. 47), fig. on p. 220; Jakobielski 1975a, p. 330
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