Text 492

Provenance
unknown
Region
unknown
Findspot
unknown
Excavation no.
 
Present location
British Museum, London
Museum no.
EA407
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Greek
Content
epitaph of Talsia
Date
600–899
Notes
 
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 39; W: 20
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
5
Height of letters
 
Description
rectangular sandstone stela with inscription incised along longer edges
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
inscription complete; object damaged in left margin
Date
600–899
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
indiction
Dating formulae
ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲭ · ⲁ̄ ⲓ̈ⲛ̄︤ⲇ̄︥ ⲓ̈ⲃ︥̄
Transcription
"Choiak 1, in the 12th indiction" (ll. 4–5)
Months
ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲭ
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
 
Image
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Source
O. Brit. Mus. Copt., pl. IX, no. 407
Image
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Latest edition
SB 5 8733
Other editions
Birch 1841, p. 368 (no. 6); CIG 4 9127; Revillout 1885, p. 28 (no. 37); O. Brit. Mus. Copt. 1, p. 9 (no. 2), pl. IX (no. 407); I. Lefebvre 648
Other publications
Junker 1925b, p. 115; Žabkar 1967, p. 17
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