Text 2794
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- cathedral, north vestibule, arch of entrance arcade, west wall; accompanying painting no. 38 (Maiestas Crucis); to the left of DBMNT 2042
- Excavation no.
- inv. no. 38 (painting); neg. nos. Fa.63/4.1318, Fa.63/4.1381
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 24333
- Medium
- wall
- Technique
- painted (dipinto)
- Type of text
- legend
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- names of Jesus, cross, and Four Living Creatures (Meliton, Agrammatap, Paramura, and Peioourouthion) serving as legend to representation of Maiestas Crucis
- Date
- 1000–1025
- Notes
- Material
- plaster
- Object dimensions
- Text dimensions
- not recorded
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 4
- Height of letters
- Description
- inscription painted above and on both sides of upper arm of cross, as well as next to the Four Living Creatures
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete
- Date
- 1000–1025
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- Michałowski 1967, pl. 88
- Image
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- Source
- neg. no. Fa.63/4.1381
- Image
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- Latest edition
- Jakobielski et alii 2017, p. 269, figs. on pp. 268–269 (no. 77)
- Other editions
- Michałowski 1967, pp. 160–161, pls. 87–8
- Other publications
- Michałowski 1964b, p. 91, fig. 43; Van Moorsel 1968, pp. 304–305 (no. 2), fig. 3; Jakobielski 1974, n. 90 on p. 294; Vantini 2009, pl. between pp. 128–129; Tsakos 2014a, pp. 255–9
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