Text 77
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- cathedral cemetery terrace (plaza 758), to the west of south church (church 294)
- Excavation no.
- 66.2.22/8 (reg. no. 66/43)
- Present location
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Museum no.
- JdE 90878
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of Marianou, bishop of Pachoras
- Date
- 11 November 1036
- Notes
- 'God of the spirits' type
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 70; W: 40; Th: 10
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- grey
- Text colour
- Lines
- 27
- Height of letters
- Description
- rectangular slab, rounded at top; epigraphic field framed by raised border; lines 1-3 separated from rest of texts by horizontal incised line; letters larger in upper and lower parts, smaller towards centre
- Decorative elements
- incised cross in central upper part; small incised cross on lower border
- State of preservation
- complete (judging from picture from 1974)
- Date
- 11 November 1036
- Chronological systems
- Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲁⲡⲟ̇ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ : ⲯ̄︤ⲛ︦ⲅ̄︥ :
ⲁⲑⲩⲣ : ⲓ︦ⲉ̄︥ - Transcription
- "(in the year) from the Martyrs 753" (l. 3)
"Athyr 15" (l. 26) - Months
- ⲁⲑⲩⲣ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- orthodox bishop of Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲟⲣ⸌ⲑ⸍ ⲉ̇ⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): l. 9; (ⲟⲣ⸌ⲑ⸍ⲇⲟⲝⲟⲛ ⲉⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲡⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍): l. 23
abba (ⲁ︦ⲃ︦): ll. 9, 22
archimandrite of (monastery of) Pouko (ⲁⲣⲭⲏⲙⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲧⲏⲥ ⲡⲟⲩⲕⲱ): l. 10
apostle to Babylon (ⲁⲡⲟⲥⲧⲟⲗⲟⲥ ⲧⲟⲩ ⲃⲁⲃⲩⲗⲱⲛ): ll. 10–11
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): l. 9; (ⲡⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍): l. 23
(monastery of) Pouko (ⲡⲟⲩⲕⲱ): l. 10
Babylon (ⲃⲁⲃⲩⲗⲱⲛ): l. 11
island of Time (ⲛⲏⲥⲟⲥ ⲧⲏⲙⲉ): ll. 11–12
(church of) the Four Living Creatures on the island of Time (ⲧⲉⲥⲥⲁⲣⲁ ⲍⲱⲁ ⲛⲏⲥⲟⲥ ⲧⲏⲙⲉ): ll. 11–12
- Latest edition
- I. QI 22, fig. on p. 87
- Other editions
- Plumley 1971, pp. 77–84; I. Faras Greek 8, fig. 9
- Other publications
- Plumley 1966, p. 11; Plumley 1970, p. 131, il. 102; I. Faras Copt., p. 144, n. 18; Plumley 1982b, pp. 108–9; Łajtar 1992a, p. 120 (no. 2); Łajtar 1996c, p. 105 (no. 4); Łajtar – Van der Vliet 1998, pp. 44–5 (no. 2); CSBE(2), p. 85; Adams 2010, pp. 243 (translation), 305 (inventory), pl. 42e; Łajtar – van der Vliet 2010, pp. 716–17; Tsakos 2011b, p. 168; Obłuski 2019, pp. 285–286
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