Text 393
- Provenance
- Sakinya
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- not recorded
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Coptic Museum, Cairo
- Museum no.
- 6839
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of Taurosa (?), son of Petiallam
- Date
- 30 June 906 or 30 June 907
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 48.5; W: 32
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 18
- Height of letters
- Description
- rectangular plaque with rounded corners; slightly raised edges
- Decorative elements
- decorated with 2 rows of 4 "David stars" each above and below text
- State of preservation
- complete
- Date
- 30 June 906 or 30 June 907
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
Era of the Saracens
Era of Diocletian
- Dating formulae
- ⲛⲥⲟⲩ ⲋ ⲙⲡⲉⲃⲟⲧ ⲉⲡⲏⲫ
ⲁⲡⲟ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲭⲕⲅ ⲁⲡⲟⲩ ⲥⲁⲣⲁⳤ ⲥϥⲅ - Transcription
- "on day 6 of the month (of) Epeiph" (ll. 7–8)
"(in the year) from Diocletian 623, (in the year) from the Saracens 293" (ll. 16–17) - Months
- ⲉⲡⲏⲫ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- I. Mina 315, pl. XV.1
- Image
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- Source
- I. Sak. 216, pl. VIII.2
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. Mina 315, pl. XV.1
- Other editions
- I. Sak. 216, pl. VIII.2
- Other publications
- Till 1948, pp. 358 (on name); Grumel 1965, pp. 89–90 (no. 9); MacCoull – Worp 1990, p. 395; CSBE(2), p. 78, n. 69; Ochała 2009, pp. 138–40; Tsakos 2010a, p. 683 (no. 1); CSCN, pp. 144, 145–7
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