Text 22
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, cemetery 2, unknown circumstances
- Excavation no.
- not registered
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11625
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of Georgios, deacon
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- 'God of the spirits' type
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 44; W: 40; Th: 3.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- brown
- Text colour
- grey-violet
- Lines
- 15
- Height of letters
- 1.2–3
- Description
- Six joining pieces forming an incomplete plaque of an elliptical shape, with complete bottom margin, large part of the left margin, and the lower part of the right one preserved. Upper right-hand quarter of the stela and a small fragment of right margin missing. The first line visible on the plaque is most probably not the actual first line of the text – it seems that there was at least one more line containing cross(es) and possibly an invocation or acclamation. The epigraphic field framed by raised border decorated with incised plaited motif. The surface was whitewashed. The letters, the raised border, and the band along the edges (ca. 8 cm wide) painted grey-violet.
- Decorative elements
- border decorated with incised plaited motif
- State of preservation
- incomplete; preserved in six fragments glued together; upper and part of right side lacking; surface peeled off
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲫⲁⲣⲙⲟⲩⲑⲏ : ⲓ︦ⲃ︥̄ :
- Transcription
- "Pharmouthi 12" (l. 14)
- Months
- ⲫⲁⲣⲙⲟⲩⲑⲏ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- deacon (ⲇⲓⲁⳤ): l. 9
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 3
- Other editions
- Shinnie – Chittick 1961, p. 93, no. 77; I. Khartoum Greek 33, pl. 32
- Other publications
- Łajtar 1996c, p. 108, no. 33
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