epitaph of woman Papsine/Doulista, daughter of bishop, mother of bishop of Pachoras and daughter of Titta (formerly known as epitaph of Tamer, bishop of Pachoras)
Date
30 March 1184
Notes
'God of the spirits' type
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 43; W: 24; Th: 8.5
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines
28
Height of letters
Description
rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by raised border on top and sides
Decorative elements
State of preservation
complete
Date
30 March 1184
Chronological systems
Era of the Martyrs Egyptian calendar
Dating formulae
ⲫⲁⲣ : ⲇ̄ : ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣⲧⲩ⸌ⲛ⸍ ‘ⲑ
Transcription
"Pharmouthi 4, (in the year) from the Martyrs 900 (?)" (ll. 27–8)
Months
ⲫⲁⲣ
Weakdays
Feasts
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Offices & titles
bishop (ⲉⲡⲓⲥⳤ̣): l. 7 bishop of Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲉⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⳤ⸍ ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): l. 20
Toponyms & ethnonyms
Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): ll. 19, 20 (Church of) Michael in Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲭ︦ⲡ︦ⲑ︦ ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): l. 21
Vidua 1826, pp. 22–23, pl. 20.1; CIG 4 9121; le Blant 1878, pp. xxiii–xxiv; Revillout 1885, pp. 19–22 (no. 25); Weissbrodt 1905/6, p. 5 (no. 2); I. Lefebvre 636; DACL 1, cols. 1529–1530; de Ricci 1909, pp. 153–1561 (no. 1); Kaufmann 1917, p. 148; SB 5 8728; I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 8; I. Faras Copt., p. 205 (cf. 166–168); I. Faras Greek 10, fig. 11
Other publications
Letronne 1827, p. 23–24 (= 1883, p. 263); le Blant 1869, p. 81; Griffith 1925, p. 262; Junker 1925b, passim; Griffith 1927, pp. 92–93; Monneret de VIllard 1935–1957: 1, p. 200; Monneret de Villard 1937, p. 58; Monneret de Villard 1938, p. 163; Oates 1963, pp. 163 (no. 12), 165; Tibiletti Bruno 1963, pp. 499–500 & passim; Jakobielski 1966c, p. 156; Žabkar 1967, p. 16, n. 29 on p. 17; Quecke 1975, p. 458; Hagedorn 1976, p. 185; Bagnall – Worp 1986, pp. 353–354; Leospo 1987, p. 44, pl. 15; Donadoni Roveri 1990, p. 234 + fig.; Łajtar 1994a, pp. 201–203; Godlewski 1995, p. 114; Łajtar 1996c, p. 105 (no. 6); Łajtar – van der Vliet 1998, p. 49 (no. 9); van der Vliet 2007, pp. 185–191 (= van der Vliet 2018b, pp. 341–345); Łajtar 2014b, p. 225; Jakobielski et alii 2017, pp. 406, 446; CIEN 7, no. 38; van der Vliet 2021, p. 4, table 3