Text 39
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- Christian tombs in front of Meroitic 'Western Palace' (SAS-site no. 24-E-15)
- Excavation no.
- M.h./15
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 7882
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of Dios, monk
- Date
- probably 800–899
- Notes
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 20; W: 22; Th: 6
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- white
- Text colour
- Lines
- 9
- Height of letters
- 1-2
- Description
- fragment of rectangular slab; traces of painted ruling
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- originally in 2 parts; now only upper left corner found
- Date
- probably 800–899
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ϩⲛ ⲁⲗϭⲏ ⲛ̄ϩⲁⲑ[ⲱⲣ]
- Transcription
- "on the last day of (the month of) Athyr" (l. 5)
- Months
- ϩⲁⲑ[ⲱⲣ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- monk (ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲁⲭⲟⲥ): l. 4
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- photo by W. Godlewski
- Image
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- Source
- Griffith 1927, pl. 61.24
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Copt. 10, pl. 7
- Other editions
- Griffith 1927, pp. 78, 80 (no. 24), pl. 61.24; I. Faras Copt., pp. 98–9, fig. 23
- Other publications
- Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, pp. 192, 200; van der Vliet 2011a, p. 191
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