Text 560
- Provenance
- Dongola
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- monastery on kom H, north-west annex, room 2a, east wall, north of entrance to room 5
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Dongola, in situ
- Museum no.
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised & painted
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of Georgios, archbishop
- Date
- 29 June 1113
- Notes
- 'God of the spirits' type
weekday correct
- Material
- marble
- Object dimensions
- H: 27.5; W: 25.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- greyish-blueish
- Text colour
- red
- Lines
- 24
- Height of letters
- 0.6-1.8
- Description
- roughly rectangular plaque
- Decorative elements
- letters in the middle painted red to form a cross
- State of preservation
- complete; put together from 2 fragments
- Date
- 29 June 1113
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
Era of the Martyrs
day of the week
- Dating formulae
- ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲏ ⲉ̄ ⲙⲏ⸌ⲛ⸍ ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲱ̄︤ⲕ̄︥ⲑ ⲏ̇ⲙⲉⲣⲁ ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲁⲕⲏ ⲱⲣⲁ ⲋ̄
- Transcription
- "in the month of Epeiph, (day) 5, (in the year) from the Martyrs 829, on Sunday, in the sixth hour" (ll. 18–19)
- Months
- ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲏ
- Weakdays
- ⲏⲙⲉⲣⲁ ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲁⲕⲏ
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- abba (ⲁ︦ⲃ︦): ll. 5, 13, 18
archbishop (ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲉⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍): l. 5
archimandrite of Great (monastery of) Anthony (ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲙⲁⲛ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲁⲛ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲙⲉ⸌ⲅ⸍): ll. 5–6; (ⲟ ⲙⲉⲅⲁⲥ ⲁⲛ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲙⲁⲛ⸌ⲇ⸍): l. 14
archistylites of (monastery of) the Holy Trinity (ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲥⲧⲩ⸌ⲗ⸍ ⲧⲣⲓⲁⲥ ⲁⲅⲓⲁⲥ): ll. 13–14
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Great (monastery of) Anthony (ⲁⲛ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲙⲉ⸌ⲅ⸍): l. 6; (ⲟ ⲙⲉⲅⲁⲥ ⲁⲛ⸌ⲧ⸍): l. 14
(monastery of) the Holy Trinity (ⲧⲣⲓⲁⲥ ⲁⲅⲓⲁⲥ) ll. 13–14
- Source
- Łajtar – van der Vliet 2017, fig. 5
- Image
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- Source
- Łajtar – van der Vliet 2017, fig. on p. 21
- Image
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- Latest edition
- Łajtar – van der Vliet 2017, pp. 18–22, no. I, fig. on p. 21 and fig. 5
- Other editions
- Łajtar 1997a, pp. 120–121, no. 4; Łajtar 2002, pp. 164–184, pl. after p. 164
- Other publications
- Jakobielski 1994, p. 118; Jakobielski 1995a, p. 40; Łajtar 1995, pp. 50–55; Łajtar 1996c, p. 106, no. 31; Martens-Czarnecka 2001b, p. 220–221, fig. 1; Łajtar – Pluskota 2001, p. 347; Jakobielski 2001b, p. 42, pls. 20, 21.1; CSBE(2), p. 86, n. 125, p. 317; Brakmann 2006, pp. 297, 314; Martens-Czarnecka 2006, p. 321, fig. 1; Jakobielski 2008, p. 291, fig. 12; CSCN, table 47 on p. 337; Godlewski 2013a, fig. on p. 117; Godlewski 2013b, pp. 663–665, fig. 1; Łajtar 2014b, p. 224; Łajtar 2015b, pp. 241–242; CIEN 5, no. 73; Godlewski 2018b, p. 57, fig. 4.17; Obłuski 2019, p. 287; Łajtar 2020a, p. 14; Mahler 2022, pp. 416–418, fig. on p. 416
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