Text 1842
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- cathedral, east part of north aisle, east wall; accompanying painting no. 18 (Nativity)
- Excavation no.
- inv. no. 18 (painting); neg. nos. Fa.63/4.1366, Fa.63/4.1367, Fa.63/4.1382
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 24365
- Medium
- wall
- Technique
- painted (dipinto)
- Type of text
- legend
- Language
- Greek/Coptic
- Content
- names of Jospeh, Mary, Archangels, shepherds, magi, Joseph, and Salome serving as legend to their representations in the Nativity scene
- Date
- 975–1025
- Notes
- Material
- plaster
- Object dimensions
- Text dimensions
- not recorded
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- Height of letters
- Description
- eight inscriptions accompanying figures in the scene of the Nativity
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- nearly complete
- Date
- 975–1025
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- Michałowski 1964b, fig. 33
- Image
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- Source
- neg. no. Fa.63/4.1382
- Image
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- Latest edition
- Jakobielski et alii 2017, p. 241, fig. on pp. 242–3 (no. 70)
- Other editions
- Michałowski 1967, pp. 143–7, pls. 63–9; I. Faras Greek 65 (legend to painting of Mary)
- Other publications
- Michałowski 1964a, p. 203, pl. 43; Michałowski 1964b, p. 91, fig. 33; Michałowski 1966a, p. 18, pl. 12; I. Faras. Copt., p. 132; Vantini 1986, pp. 399–400, fig. on p. 401; Łaptaś 2001, pp. 140–3, figs. 3–4; Vantini 2009, pls. between pp. 128–9; Catalogue Warsaw 2014, p. 114, fig. 18; CIEN 6, no. 58
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