Text 2249
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Lepsius's expedition, findspot not recorded
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin (lost)
- Museum no.
- ÄM 1505
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of Michinkouda, monk
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- keleusis type
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 42; W: not recorded
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 13
- Height of letters
- not recorded
- Description
- Complete slab with a slightly rounded (or damaged?) upper edge. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, leaving margins of various size on each side. The upper margin very broad, left uninscribed.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete; surface worn in the left-hand part causing some difficulties in reading; long vertical crack in the right-hand part of the stone affecting some letters in lines 1–7
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲙ̄ⲡ̣ⲉⲃ̣ⲟⲧ ⲫⲁⲙ̣ⲉ ̣ ̣ϩⲱⲧⲡ
- Transcription
- "in the month of Phamenoth" (ll. 6–7)
- Months
- ⲫⲁⲙ̣ⲉ ̣ ̣ϩⲱⲧⲡ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- brother (= monk) (ⲥⲟⲛ): l. 5
monk (ⲙⲟⲛⲁⲭⲟ̣ⲥ̣): l. 6
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- I. Ghazali 44
- Image
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- Source
- Lepsius 1849–59, 6 (plates), 12, pl. 103, Gr. 49
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 44
- Other editions
- Revillout 1885, p. 33, no. 50; SB Kopt. 1 494
- Other publications
- Lepsius 1849–59: 5 (text), p. 292; 6 (plates), 12, pl. 103, 49; Erman 1899, p. 413 (description and German translation); DACL 4/1, col. 452 (French translation); Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 255; Satzinger 2004, p. 539
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