Text 959
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- tomb 369, west wall
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Museum no.
- temp. reg. no. 4/2/67/8
- Medium
- wall
- Technique
- painted (dipinto)
- Type of text
- literary: biblical
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- quotation from Luke 1:1–4 and 24:51–3
- Date
- probably 1000–1199
- Notes
- other inscriptions in the same tomb: DBMNT 958, 960, 961; I. QI 92A is registered as hypothetical but non-existing inscription on east wall of the tomb
- Material
- plaster
- Object dimensions
- Text dimensions
- H: c. 65; W: 68
- Object colour
- white
- Text colour
- dark brown (originally probably black)
- Lines
- 12
- Height of letters
- Description
- dipinto of 12 lines painted on whitewashed wall inside the tomb
- Decorative elements
- decorative device to divide two different passages of Luke (l. 8)
- State of preservation
- originally almost complete; at present, right part largely faded and illegible
- Date
- probably 1000–1199
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. QI 92 C
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Plumley 1966, pp. 10–11; Plumley 1982a, pp. 92–93; Adams 1996, pp. 82–83; Łajtar – van der Vliet 2010, p. 715; Łajtar – van der Vliet 2015, pp. 112–118; Łajtar 2015–2016, p. 133 (no. 70); Łajtar 2020b, Appendix no. QI20 (cf. p. 186)
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