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Provenance
Dongola
Region
Makuria
Findspot
monastery on kom H, north-west annex, room 7: inscription (a) on north wall; inscription (b) in rectangular niche in east wall, to the right of smaller voulted niche
Excavation no.
 
Present location
Dongola, in situ
Museum no.
 
Medium
wall
Technique
painted (dipinto)
Type of text
liturgical: prayer
Language
Greek
Content
liturgy of the Presanctified with subscript of Ioannes, priest
Date
1000–1199
Notes
 
Material
plaster
Object dimensions
 
Text dimensions
(a) H: 27.8; W: 78.5
(b) H: 25; W: 38
Object colour
 
Text colour
black
Lines
(a): 9; (b): 29
Height of letters
(a) 1.6–4.8 (avarage 2–2.5)
(b) 0.5–1.5
Description
inscription painted in two parts on walls of chapel; (a) on east part of north wall, (b) part on east wall, above and to the right of semicircular niche
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
complete but for minor lacunae in inscription (b)
Date
1000–1199
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
priest (⳦): (b), l. 17
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
Łajtar – Zielińska 2016, fig. 6
Image
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Source
 
Image
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Latest edition
Łajtar – van der Vliet 2017, pp. 49–59, no. XXXV, figs. on pp. 51 and 53, figs. 10–11
Other editions
 
Other publications
Łajtar 1995, pp. 55–61 (translation and intrepretation); Jakobielski – Scholz (eds.) 2001, pl. 22.2; Brakmann 2006, pp. 320–324; Łajtar – Zielińska 2016, pp. 439 and 441 (English translation), 442, no. 4, fig. 6; CIEN 5, no. 73; Łajtar 2020a, p. 10; Łajtar 2020b, Appendix no. D28 (cf. p. 193)
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