Text 2376

Provenance
Abdallah-n Irqi
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
central church (= church on citadel), west part of south aisle, south wall; near painting no. 6/6b (St Phoibammon)
Excavation no.
 
Present location
Coptic Museum, Cairo
Museum no.
11486
Medium
wall
Technique
incised (graffito)
Type of text
visitor's inscription
Language
Greek
Content
inscription left by Isaak, priest
Date
30 August 987–28 August 988
Notes
year 703 from the Diocletian was a leap year, hence year 704 started on 30 August
Material
plaster
Object dimensions
 
Text dimensions
not recorded
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
3
Height of letters
 
Description
3 lines of incised inscription; placed beneath right arm of representation of saint
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
incomplete (?)
Date
30 August 987–28 August 988
Chronological systems
Era of Diocletian
Dating formulae
[---]ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗ ⲯⲇ̣

(corrected by Ochała)
Transcription
"[in the year from] Diocletian 704" (l. 3)
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
priest (⳦): l. 1
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
Schneider 1975, pl. 96
Image
Image not available
Source
Schneider 1975, fig. on p. 34 (no. 6)
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
Ochała 2016b, pp. 516–518, fig. 2
Other editions
Schneider 1975, p. 33, fig. on p. 34 (no. 6), pl. 96
Other publications
Medić 1965b, figs. 41–42; Van Moorsel 1975, p. 122; CIEN 4, no. 52
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