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Provenance: el-Koro
Region: Makuria
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.

Medium: sepulchral cross
Technique: incised before firing
Type of text: acclamation
Language: Greek
Content: 'light – life' acclamation
Date: 600–1299
Notes

Material: terracotta
Object dimensions: H: 13; W: 17; Th: 5.5
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Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 1 horizontal
Height of letters

Description: fragment of sepulchral cross
Decorative elements
State of preservation: fragmentary; right arm preserved

Date: 600–1299
Chronological systems

Dating formulae
Transcription
Months
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Tsakos 2011b, fig. 2f
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Provenance: el-Koro
Region: Makuria
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.

Medium: sepulchral cross
Technique: incised before firing
Type of text: acclamation
Language: Greek
Content: 'light – life' acclamation
Date: 600–1299
Notes

Material: terracotta
Object dimensions: H: 11; W: 11; Th: 4.5
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 1 horizontal
Height of letters

Description: fragment of sepulchral cross
Decorative elements
State of preservation: fragmentary; right arm preserved

Date: 600–1299
Chronological systems

Dating formulae
Transcription
Months
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Tsakos 2011b, fig. 2g
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Provenance: el-Koro
Region: Makuria
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.

Medium: sepulchral cross
Technique: incised before firing
Type of text: acclamation
Language: Greek
Content: 'light – life' acclamation
Date: 600–1299
Notes

Material: terracotta
Object dimensions: H: 20; W: 10; Th: 5
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 1 vertical
Height of letters

Description: fragment of sepulchral cross
Decorative elements
State of preservation: fragmentary; lower arm preserved

Date: 600–1299
Chronological systems

Dating formulae
Transcription
Months
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Tsakos 2011b, fig. 2g
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Provenance: el-Koro
Region: Makuria
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.

Medium: sepulchral cross
Technique: incised before firing
Type of text: acclamation
Language: Greek
Content: 'light – life' acclamation
Date: 600–1299
Notes

Material: terracotta
Object dimensions: not recorded
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 1 horizontal
Height of letters

Description: fragment of sepulchral cross
Decorative elements
State of preservation: fragmentary; left (?) arm preserved

Date: 600–1299
Chronological systems

Dating formulae
Transcription
Months
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Tsakos 2011b, fig. 2i
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Provenance: el-Koro
Region: Makuria
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.

Medium: sepulchral cross
Technique: incised before firing
Type of text: acclamation
Language: Greek
Content: 'light – life' acclamation
Date: 600–1299
Notes

Material: terracotta
Object dimensions: H: 14.5; W: 22; Th: 4.5
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 1 horizontal
Height of letters

Description: fragment of sepulchral cross
Decorative elements
State of preservation: fragmentary; left arm preserved

Date: 600–1299
Chronological systems

Dating formulae
Transcription
Months
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Tsakos 2011b, fig. 2j
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Provenance: Dongola
Region: Makuria
Findspot: monastery on kom H, north-west annex, crypt 1 (grave 28) under room 5, on ceiling above west wall; above DBMNT 2744
Excavation no.
Present location: Dongola, in situ
Museum no.

Medium: wall
Technique: painted (dipinto)
Type of text: invocation
Language: Greek
Content: invocation of Holy Trinity
Date: 1100–1199
Notes

Material: plaster
Object dimensions
Text dimensions: H: 2.5; W: 22
Object colour
Text colour: black
Lines: 1
Height of letters

Description: inscription painted on ceiling
Decorative elements
State of preservation: incomplete

Date: 1100–1199
Chronological systems

Dating formulae
Transcription
Months
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Łajtar – van der Vliet 2017, fig. 16
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Latest edition: Łajtar – van der Vliet 2017, pp. 68–69, no. 1, fig. 16
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Other publications: Jakobielski 1994, pp. 119–122; Jakobielski 1995a, pp. 40–43; Żurawski 1999a, pp. 222–224, fig. 21; Żurawski 1999b, pp. 427–428; Jakobielski 2001c, pp. 164–165; Müller 2001, fig. 1; Welsby 2002, pp. 53, 66, 103–104; Sheridan 2004, pp. 393–394; Catalogue Warsaw 2006, pp. 28–29, fig. 12 (lower); Brakmann 2006, p. 297; van der Vliet 2011b, pp. 555–574; Łajtar – van der Vliet 2012, pp. 330–337, esp. 332; Godlewski 2013a, p. 87, fig. on p. 86 (lower); Łajtar – van der Vliet 2015, pp. 112–118; CIEN 5, no. 73; Łajtar 2020a, p. 14