S of Merowe prayer in central part unidentifiable; 'God of the spirits' prayer runs around the stone
Material
marble
Object dimensions
H: 54; W: 49; Th: 10
Text dimensions
Object colour
white
Text colour
Lines
5 + 3 (on border)
Height of letters
Description
fragment of marble stela; main epigraphic field framed by wide raised border on which there are 3 lines of inscription ('God of the spirits' prayr); the whole text of the prayer must have run along 3 edges of the stela (left, upper, and right); lower part and lower border left uninscribed
Decorative elements
State of preservation
fragmentary; lower right corner with portions of lower and right margins
SB 4 7431; Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 252; I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 36 bis
Other publications
Crowfoot 1927, no. 4, p. 230, fig. 1; Tibiletti Bruno 1963, passim; Žabkar 1967, p. 17; Roquet 1977, n. 5 on p. 173; Żurawski 1999a, p. 203, fig. 2 (wrongly identified as being from Dongola); Żurawski 2001b, p. 76, n. 6 (no. 8)