DBMNT

Provenance: Sonqi Tino
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: church, room 8, west wall; to the right of painting of Christ protecting King Georgios; below right part of Text 1438
Excavation no.
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.: SNM 24366

Medium: wall
Technique: painted (dipinto)
Type of text: private prayer
Language: Greek
Content: prayer to Archangel Michael for two (?) persons, Petro and Simeon, eparch
Date: 1000–1399
Notes

Offices & titles: priest (⳦): ll. 3, 7
archpriest (ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍⳦ⲉ): l. 3
archimandrite of (Monastery of Four) Living Creatures in Paras (= Faras) (ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲙⲁⲛ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲡⲁⲣⲁ ⲍⲱⲁ̇): ll. 3–4
archargad( ) of (Church of) Forty (Martyrs) (ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ̣⸍ⲁⲣⲅⲁ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲧⲉⲥⲥⲉⲣⲉⲕⲟⲛⲧⲁ): l. 4
archikoinobiarches of (Monastery of) Archangel Michael at Pigij (?) (ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲕⲓⲟⲛⲟ⸌ⲃ⸍ ⲡⲓⲅ̄ⳝ ⲭ̄ⲡ̄ⲑ̄): ll. 4–5
eparch (ⲉ̇ⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍): l. 5
great priest (⳦ ⲙⲉ⸌ⲅ⸍): l. 5
chartoularios (ⲭⲁⲣⲧⲟⲩⲗⲁⲣⲓⲟⲩ): ll. 5–6
lord of elders (ⲅⲟⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ⳟⲟ⸌ⲇ⸍): l. 6 (Donadoni 1975 as personal name; corr. G. Ochała)
great lector (ⲁ̇ⲛⲁ⸌ⲅ⸍ ⲙⲉ⸌ⲅ⸍): l. 6
king (ⲃⲗⲥ̄): l. 7
thegna of Boul( ) (ⲃⲟⲩ⸌ⲗ⸍ ⲑⲉ⸌ⲕ⸍): l. 7

Toponyms & ethnonyms: (Monastery of Four) Living Creatures in Paras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲣⲁ ⲍⲱⲁ̇): ll. 3–4
Paras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲣⲁ): l. 3
(Church of) Forty (Martyrs) (ⲧⲉⲥⲥⲉⲣⲉⲕⲟⲛⲧⲁ): l. 4
(Monastery of) Archangel Michael at Pigij (?) (ⲡⲓⲅ̄ⳝ ⲭ̄ⲡ̄ⲑ̄): l. 5
Pigij (?) (ⲡⲓⲅ̄ⳝ): l. 5
Boul( ) (ⲃⲟⲩ⸌ⲗ⸍): l. 7

Latest edition: unpublished; in preparation by Sonqi Tino Collaborative; mentioned in Donadoni 1975, pp. 34, 38
Other editions

Other publications: Łajtar 1992a, pp. 121 (no. 5), 122; Obłuski 2019, pp. 275–276; Łajtar 2021a, fig. 12.4

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