Text 857
- Provenance
- Serra-West
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- near church (site 24-N-6)
- Excavation no.
- 24-N-6/5
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 17041
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek/Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 900–1099
- Notes
- l. 1 in Greek (Trinitarian formula)
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 28; W: 36.5; Th: 9
- Text dimensions
- H: 8; W: 24
- Object colour
- blue-grey (traces of white lime mortar in conch; white stucco on decorative lettering)
- Text colour
- Lines
- 5
- Height of letters
- 1.5-2.0
- Description
- roughly rectangular fragment of slab; epigraphic field framed by raised border in form of aedicula
- Decorative elements
- aedicula-type decoration: epigraphic field in form of sculptured niche or doorway, surrounded on left and right by columns with lotus (?) capitals, on which rests lintel supporting conch within arch; rim of conch decorated with crosses (?); cross in the center of conch; decorative lettering and two 'Solomon's knots' in flat surface on each side of conch
- State of preservation
- upper part with complete upper margin and portions of side ones; text destroyed in middle part
- Date
- 900–1099
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Copt. 16, pl. 10
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Adams 2005, pp. 173–5, fig. 74.1, pl. 19b
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