Text 854
- Provenance
- Faras
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- so-called north monastery, room near the church
- Excavation no.
- F 106/61 (neg. no. Fa.61.178)
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 14259
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised & painted
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of Philotheos, priest
- Date
- 900–1099
- Notes
- pronoia-type
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 40; W: 38; Th: 9
- Text dimensions
- H: 29.5; W: 34
- Object colour
- yellow; surface greyish-brown
- Text colour
- red
- Lines
- 13
- Height of letters
- 1.5-2.0
- Description
- gable topped slab with all edges; epigraphic field framed by raised border (W: c. 1.5-2.0); ruling (H of register: 2.5)
- Decorative elements
- incised Greek cross with symbolic lettering between its arms on gable
- State of preservation
- complete; glued of two parts
- Date
- 900–1099
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- priest of (church of) Saint Georgios (ⲡⲉⲡⲣⲉⲥ ⲙⲡϩⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ ⲅⲉⲱⲣⲅⲓⲟⲥ): l. 10
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- (church of) Saint Georgios (ⲡϩⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ ⲅⲉⲱⲣⲅⲓⲟⲥ): l. 10
- Source
- neg. no. Fa.61.178 (= I. Khartoum Copt., pl. 5)
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Copt. 6, pl. 5
- Other editions
- Jakobielski, in: Michałowski 1962a, pp. 147–8 (cf. 163, no. 17), fig. 104; I Faras Copt., pp. 186–7, fig. 68
- Other publications
- Michałowski 1962a, pp. 130–51 (archeological context); I. Faras Greek, p. 59 (translation), fig. 20; Jakobielski 1975a, p. 327
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