Text 861
- Provenance
- Missiminia
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- cemetery (site 2-V-6)
- Excavation no.
- 2-V-6/0 (on object); 2-V-6/S/1 (in report)
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 24208
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–1099
- Notes
- Abri-East district
under the same number (24208) 3 pieces are registered: fr. A+B of I. Khartoum Copt. 25 (DBMNT 861) and I. Khartoum Copt. 26 (DBMNT 862), but the latter does not belong to the same stela
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- A: H: 16; W: 12; Th: 2.5 (w/frame 4.5);
B: H: 8; W: 9; Th: 2.5 (w/frame 4.5) - Text dimensions
- A: H: 14.5; W: 10;
B: H: 6; W: 4.5 - Object colour
- red-brown
- Text colour
- Lines
- A: 5; B: 4
- Height of letters
- c. 2.0 (lower) -2.5 (top)
- Description
- two non-joining fragments of round-topped stela; A (glued from 2 pieces): upper left part with rounded edge; B: fragment from left margin; epigraphic field framed by flat raised border (W: 3.0-3.5)
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; A: fragment of upper left corner with beginnings of lines and portion of upper and left margins; B: beginnings of lines with portion of left margin
- Date
- 700–1099
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Copt. 25, pl. 18
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Vila 1984, p. 228, fig. 268 (left and below right), p. 238 (concordance, cited under old no. SNM 24149); Tsakos 2010a, p. 684 (no. 6)
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