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- Provenance
- Nawi
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- not recorded
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima (only right part preserved)
- Museum no.
- 42
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of Georgios
- Date
- 6 December 857
- Notes
- near Dongola
Crowfoot 1927 – AD 858; corrected by Grumel 1965; Creation Era gives AD 853, and Incarnation Era AD 876 (Grumel mistakenly 576)
- Material
- marble
- Object dimensions
- H: 44; W: 38
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 18
- Height of letters
- Description
- rectangular slab
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- originally, upper right corner broken off; at present, only right-hand part of the stone preserved
- Date
- 6 December 857
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
Era of the World Creation
Era of the Incarnation
Era of Diocletian
- Dating formulae
- ⲉⲛ ⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲭⲟ̣[---] ⲓ︦ ⲁⲡⲟ ⲕⲟⲥ⸌ⲙ⸍ ⲋ̄ⲧ̄ⲙ̄ⲉ̄ ⲁⲡⲟ ⲇⲉ ⲧⲏⲥ ⲧ⸌ⲩ⸍ ⲭ̄︤ⲩ̄︥ ⲡⲁⲣⲟ⸌ⲩ⸍ⲥⲓⲁⲥ ⲱ̄ⲝ̄ⲏ̄ ⲁⲡⲟ ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲫ̄ⲟ︦ⲇ̄︥
- Transcription
- "in the month of Choiak, (day) 10, (in the year) from (the creation) of the world 6345, (in the year) from the coming of Christ 868, (in the year) from Diocletian 574" (ll. 5–7)
- Months
- ⲭⲟ̣[---]
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 5
- Other editions
- Crowfoot 1927, pp. 226–8 (no. 1), pl. 56.2; SB 4 7428; Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 244; SEG 8 871
- Other publications
- Grumel 1965, pp. 93–4 (no. 12); Tibiletti Bruno 1963, passim; Žabkar 1967, p. 17; Tsakos 2009a, pp. 221–2 (no. 4), fig. 3; CSBE(2), p. 77, n. 60; CSCN, pp. 195–6
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