Text 2149

Provenance
Kalabsha (probably)
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
unknown
Excavation no.
 
Present location
British Museum, London
Museum no.
EA409
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Greek
Content
epitaph of woman Souai
Date
probably 700–999
Notes
commonly attributed to Thebes, but evidently Nubian, probably from Kalabsha (Junker, Łajtar)
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 19; W: ?
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
12
Height of letters
 
Description
 
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
 
Date
probably 700–999
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
indiction
Dating formulae
ⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲫⲁⲱⲫⲓ ⲓ̈ ⲓ̈ⲛⲇ ⲋ
Transcription
"in the month of Phaophi, (day) 19, in the 6th indiction" (ll. 8–9)
Months
ⲫⲁⲱⲫⲓ
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
 
Image
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Source
O. Brit. Mus. Copt. 1, pl. 9 (no. 409)
Image
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Latest edition
I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 42a
Other editions
Birch 1841, p. 367 (no. 4); CIG 4 9111; O. Brit. Mus. Copt. 1, p. 10 (no. 4), pl. 9 (no. 409); Revillout 1885, p. 29 (no. 39); I. Lefebvre 382; SB 5 8718; Baillet 1926, no. 2110
Other publications
Junker 1925b, pp. 115–16; Tibiletti Bruno 1963, passim; Łajtar 1993a, p. 241, n. 4; Richter 2013, p. 148
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