Text 699
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- cathedral, east part of north aisle, east wall; accompanying painting no. 18A (King Mouses Georgios)
- Excavation no.
- inv. no. 18A (painting); neg. nos. Fa.63/4.1367, Fa.63/4.1374, Fa.63/4.1382, Fa.63/4.1392
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 24365
- Medium
- wall
- Technique
- painted (dipinto)
- Type of text
- commemorative inscription
- Language
- Greek/Old Nubian
- Content
- inscription of King Mouses Georgios
- Date
- 1155–before 1198
- Notes
- Material
- plaster
- Object dimensions
- Text dimensions
- not recorded
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 5
- Height of letters
- Description
- five lines of inscriptio painted in black ink to the right of King Mouses Georgios’s head
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete, but for a few illegible places
- Date
- 1155–before 1198
- Chronological systems
- king's occurrence
- Dating formulae
- ⲃ̄︤ⲁ︦ⲥ︥ ⲙⲱⲩ̇ⲥⲏⲥ ⲅⲉⲱⲣⲅⲓⲟⲩ ⲃ︤ⲁ︦ⲥ︦ⲓ ⲩ̄︤ⲩ︥̄ ⲕⲟⲩ⸌ⲇ⸍ⲁⲡⲥ̄ ⲋ ⲁ̇ⲣⲟⲩⲁ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲋ ⲙⲁⲕⲣⲟ⸌ⲧ⸍
- Transcription
- "King Moise Georgios, son of Koudapis, king of Arouades and Makuritai" (ll. 1–3)
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- king (ⲃ̄ⲁ̄ⲥ̄): l. 1; (ⲃⲁⲥⲓⲗⲉⲩ): l. 5
king of Aruades and Makurites (ⲃ︦ⲁ︦ⲥ︦ⲓ︦ ... ⲋ ⲁ̇ⲣⲟⲩⲁ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲋ ⲙⲁⲕⲣⲟ⸌ⲧ⸍): l. 2
builder of Ami (ⲁⲙⲛ̄ ⲟⲓⲕⲟⲇⲟⲙⲓⲥ): l. 4
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Arouades (ⲁⲣⲟⲩⲁ⸌ⲇ⸍): l. 3
Makurites (ⲙⲁⲕⲣⲟ⸌ⲧ⸍): l. 3
Ami (ⲁⲙⲛ̄): ll. 3, 5
(Church of) Mary in Ami (ⲁⲙⲛ̄ ⲣⲛⲃ): l. 5
- Source
- Michałowski 1967, pl. 70
- Image
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- Source
- Jakobielski 1978, pl. XLIII.B
- Image
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- Latest edition
- Jakobielski et alii 2017, pp. 432–4, fig. on p. 432 (no. 142)
- Other editions
- Altheim – Stiehl 1971, pp. 487–508; Jakobielski 1978, pp. 147–51, pls. 11, 43b; Łajtar 2009b, pp. 89–97
- Other publications
- Michałowski 1964b, fig. 33; Michałowski 1967, pp. 38, 147–8, pls. 64, 70; Jakobielski 1969, p. 503, fig. 6; Plumley 1978, pp. 237–8; Łajtar – Van der Vliet 1998, pp. 47–8 (no. 7); CIEN 6, no. 68
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