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Provenance
Faras
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
cathedral, walled-up arcade between south aisle and south vestibule, north face
Excavation no.
E 251h.4 (neg. nos. Fa.62/3.0298, Fa.62/3.0299, Fa.62/3.1096)
Present location
not preserved (?)
Museum no.
 
Medium
wall
Technique
painted (dipinto)
Type of text
visitor's inscription
Language
Greek/Old Nubian
Content
perhaps visitor's inscription left by more than one person (?)
Date
1200–1299
Notes
 
Material
plaster
Object dimensions
 
Text dimensions
not recorded
Object colour
 
Text colour
black
Lines
9
Height of letters
 
Description
painted inscription divided into two parts by horizontal line between lines 4 and 5, but evidently written by the same hand, although lower part in smaller letters
Decorative elements
large cross to the left (ll. 3–4)
State of preservation
incomplete; right and lower parts lost
Date
1200–1299
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
deacon of (Church of) Jesus (ⲓ̄ⲥ︦ ⲇⲓⲁ⸌ⲕ⸍): l. 3
cleric (ⲕⲗⲓ̈): l. 4
toma[---] of Great (Church of) Jesus in Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲓ̄ⲥ︦ ⲙⲉ⸌ⲅ⸍ ⲧⲱⲙⲁ[---] ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): ll. 6–7
Toponyms & ethnonyms
(Church of) Jesus (ⲓ̄ⲥ︦): l. 3
Great (Church of) Jesus in Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲓ̄ⲥ︦ ⲙⲉ⸌ⲅ⸍ ⲧⲱⲙⲁ[---] ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): ll. 6–7
Source
neg. no. Fa.62/3.0299 (= I. Faras Copt., fig. 58)
Image
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Source
 
Image
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Latest edition
I. Faras Copt., p. 176 (ll. 5–9), fig. 58
Other editions
 
Other publications
Łajtar – Van der Vliet 1998, p. 48
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