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Provenance
Ghazali
Region
Makuria
Findspot
loose stone block belonging most probably to north wall of northern church
Excavation no.
GN.II.01
Present location
Ghazali; placed in reconstructed wall of northern church
Museum no.
 
Medium
wall
Technique
incised (graffito)
Type of text
visitor's inscription
Language
Greek
Content
inscription left by Iakob (?), deacon, son of King Basil
Date
1000–1299
Notes
 
Material
plaster
Object dimensions
 
Text dimensions
H: 3.5; W: 26
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
1
Height of letters
1–3
Description
inscription incised in plaster
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
incomplete; hardly legible due to very shallow incisions
Date
1000–1299
Chronological systems
king's occurrence
Dating formulae
ⲩ̄ⲥ̄ ⲃⲁⲥ̄ⲗ̄ ⲃ︤ⲗ︦ⲥ̣︥̄
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
deacon (ⲇⲓⲁ⸌ⲕ⸍): l. 1
king (ⲃ̄ⲗ̄ⲥ̣̄): l. 1
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
photo by G. Ochała
Image
Image not available
Source
 
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
unpublished; mentioned in Obłuski et alii 2017, p. 381, fig. 9
Other editions
 
Other publications
Obłuski – Ochała 2016, pp. 74 and 76; CIEN 4, no. 66
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