DBMNT

Provenance: Ghazali
Region: Makuria
Findspot: Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, cemetery 2, in situ mounted in the mastaba of one of the tombs
Excavation no.: not registered
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.: SNM 11279

Description: Almost complete plaque with complete bottom margin and larger parts of both side margins preserved. Twenty lines of text survive on the front surface; the upper margin along with two more lines of the text is lost. The epigraphic field framed by a raised border with a shallow groove in the middle. From the point of view of the execution technique, the stela constitutes a curiosity: the text was apparently first painted with white paint after firing, and afterwards the letters were incised through the paint. Note, however, that some letters and signs were not cut, only painted: ⲓ in ⲥⲩⲍⲏⲧⲁⲓ in line 13, the supralinear stroke above ⲕ̄ⲉ̄︥ in line 16; the mid-dot after ⲁⲗⲏⲑⲉⲓⲁ in line 17; the supralinear dot above the ⲏ in ⲏ̇ⲯⲩⲭⲏ and the cluster ⲧⲟⲩⲉⲛⲁⲅⲁ in line 19; and entire lines 20–21. The surface seems to have been painted red. The last line of the text (l. 22) written on the left border, upside down in relation to the main text.
Decorative elements
State of preservation: upper part lacking; surface eroded beneath breaking

Latest edition: I. Ghazali 2
Other editions: Shinnie – Chittick 1961, p. 87, no. 61; I. Khartoum Greek 32, pl. 31

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