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- Provenance
- Kalabsha
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- in a rock cave N of the site, in a wadi separating Kalabsha from Beit el-Wali
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- not preserved
- Museum no.
- Medium
- rock
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of Elias, monk
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- stone
- Object dimensions
- Text dimensions
- not recorded
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 6
- Height of letters
- Description
- inscription incised on the wall of the cave in the form of tabula ansata; the epigraphic field ca. 1 cm deep
- Decorative elements
- epigraphic field incised in the form of tabula ansata; alpha and omega incised in the 'halndles'
- State of preservation
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
indiction
- Dating formulae
- ⲙⲉⲛⲓ ⲙⲉⲭⲓⲣ ⲉ̄ ⲓ̈ⲛⲇⲓⲕ ⲉ̄
- Transcription
- "in the month of Mecheir, (day) 5, in the 5th indiction" (ll. 4–5)
- Months
- ⲙⲉⲭⲓⲣ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- brother (= monk) (ⲁⲇⲉⲗⲫ): l. 2
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- Curto et alii 1965, p. 90 (no. 1), pl. 16a
- Other editions
- Sayce 1894, p. 296 (no. VI); I. Lefebvre 619
- Other publications
- Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 40; Žabkar 1967, p. 16
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