Text 79
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- Rivergate Church
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- British Museum, London
- Museum no.
- EA1600
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of Partholomeos, great priest of the Church of the Virgin
- Date
- 18 January 1181
- Notes
- 'God of the spirits' type
lunar day incorrect – 13 days later than Alexandrian cycle; year date correctly read in Bagnall – Worp 1986, no. 8
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 50; W: 25
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- pale pink
- Text colour
- Lines
- 25
- Height of letters
- Description
- roughly rectangular sandstone slab; epigraphic field framed by decorative raised border on top and sides
- Decorative elements
- rasied border decorated with plaitwork pattern
- State of preservation
- complete, but obliterated
- Date
- 18 January 1181
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
Era of the Martyrs
lunar calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲧⲩⲃⲓ ⲕ︤ⲅ︥ ⲥⲉⲗⲉ̣ⲛ̣ⲏ ⲓⲋ̄︥ · ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ̣⸍ ⲱ︤ϥ︦ⲍ
- Transcription
- "Tybi 23, on the 16th moon (day), (in the year) from the Martyrs 897" (l. 23)
- Months
- ⲧⲩⲃⲓ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- great priest of (Church of) Virgin (⳦ ⲙⲉ⸌ⲅ⸍ ⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲑ⸍): l. 24
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- (Church of) Virgin (ⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲑ⸍): l. 24
- Source
- © The Trustees of the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA1600
- Image
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- Source
- Griffith 1926, pl. 63
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. Faras Greek 11
- Other editions
- Griffith 1926, pp. 84–85, pls. 62.3, 63; Monneret de Villard 1935–1957: 1, p. 196; I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 7
- Other publications
- Oates 1963, p. 163 (no. 10); Tibiletti Bruno 1963, passim; Michałowski 1964a, n, 6 on p. 197; Grumel 1965, p. 87 (no. 4); Žabkar 1967, p. 16, n. 29 on p. 17; I. Faras Copt., p. 170; Hagedorn 1976, p. 185; Bagnall – Worp 1986, passim (no. 8), esp. p. 352; Łajtar 1996c, p. 105 (no. 7); CSBE(2), pp. 313–314 (no. 11); Satzinger 2004, p. 536
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