Text 515
- Provenance
- Komangana
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- cemetery 178; reused to block entrance to tomb 8, inscribed surface turned inwards and upside down
- Excavation no.
- 178/8:8
- Present location
- Uppsala
- Museum no.
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek/Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of Staurophoros, meizon, nauarches of Nobades, naukrates of the Seven Lands
- Date
- 4 December 1069
- Notes
- near Debeira
weekday correct
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 44; W: 24; Th: 17
- Text dimensions
- H: 34; W: 19
- Object colour
- reddish-brown
- Text colour
- Lines
- 32
- Height of letters
- 0.9
- Description
- roughly rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by raised border in form of aedicula, line 1 written on "lintel"
- Decorative elements
- aedicula-type decoration: 2 columns with undecorated capitals supporting lintel upon which resting conch
- State of preservation
- complete, left upper corner broken off (?)
- Date
- 4 December 1069
- Chronological systems
- day of the week
Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲧⲏ ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲥⲕⲉⲩⲏ ⲏⲙⲉⲣⲁ · ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕ · ⲏ̄ · ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣⲧ · ⲯⲡ̄ⲋ
- Transcription
- "on the Preparation Day (= Friday), on day 8 of Choiak, (in the year) from the Martyrs 786" (ll. 28–30)
- Months
- ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕ
- Weakdays
- ⲧⲏ ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲥⲕⲉⲩⲏ
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- meizoteros (ⲙⲉⲓⲍ): l. 8
nauarches of the Nobades (ⲛⲁⲩⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲛⲟ⸌ⲃ⸍): l. 8
nau( ) of the Seven Lands (ⲛⲁⲩ ⲉⲡⲧⲁ ⲭⲱⲣⲁⲓ): l. 8
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Nobades (ⲛⲟ⸌ⲃ⸍): l. 8
Seven Lands (ⲉⲡⲧⲁ ⲭⲱⲣⲁⲓ): l. 8
(Church of) Seueros in the town (ⲥⲉⲩⲏⲣⲟⲥ ⲇⲡ︥ⲡⲉⲇⲱ): ll. 24–5
- Source
- Hägg 1982, pl. 105
- Image
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- Source
- Hägg 1982, fig. on p. 57
- Image
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- Latest edition
- Hägg 1981, pp. 55–59, fig. on p. 57, pl. 105
- Other editions
- Holthoer – Salonen – Ziliacus 1964, pp. 15–19, figs. 1, 7
- Other publications
- Säve-Söderbergh 1964, pp. 37–39, fig. 9b; Žabkar 1967, p. 16; Säve-Söderbergh 1970, p. 238; Säve-Söderbergh – Englund – Nordström 1981, p. 134; Säve-Söderbergh 1981, p. 50; Hägg 1990, pp. 161, 162; Łajtar 1996c, p. 106 (no. 18); Łajtar – Van der Vliet 1998, p. 50 (no. 11); CSBE(2), p. 85, n. 121, p. 316; CSCN, table 47 on p. 337; Berkes 2017, pp. 117–118, table on p. 119
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