Text 2007

Provenance
Dongola
Region
Makuria
Findspot
citadel, house A, room 3; accompanying painting of Christ as Sun of Righteousness
Excavation no.
6/A-3
Present location
Sudan National Museum, Khartoum (on loan in British Museum, London)
Museum no.
SNM 31260
Medium
wall
Technique
painted (dipinto)
Type of text
legend
Language
Greek
Content
legend to painting of Christ trampling evil powers, including Psalm 90:13
Date
700–899
Notes
 
Material
plaster
Object dimensions
 
Text dimensions
not recorded
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
(head): 1 vertical to the left + 3 horizontal to the right
(waist): 1 to the left (rest not preserved); 3 to the right
Height of letters
 
Description
legend accompanying painting of Christ, around his head and to the on both sides at the height of the waist
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
incomplete
Date
700–899
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
Martens-Czarnecka 2001, fig. 4
Image
Image not available
Source
Godlewski 1982, fig. 1
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
unpublished; mentioned in Godlewski 1982, p. 95, fig. 1
Other editions
 
Other publications
Dobrzeniecki 1979, p. 84, figs. 4–5; Dobrzeniecki 1980, p. 313, figs. 8–9; Jakobielski 1982, p. 117, fig. 12; Martens-Czarnecka 1987, p. 268, fig. 2; Martens-Czarnecka 1990, p. 233, figs. 1–2; Godlewski 1992, p. 302, fig. 33; Werner 1995, p. 283; Martens-Czarnecka 2001a, p. 257, figs. 2, 4, 5; Catalogue London 2004, p. 214 (no. 181); Godlewski 2013a, p. 107, fig. on p. 106; Łajtar 2015–2016, p. 129 (no. 29); Łajtar 2020a, p. 9; Łajtar 2020b, Appendix no. D5
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