Text 23

Provenance
Ghazali
Region
Makuria
Findspot
Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, khor west of monastery
Excavation no.
not registered
Present location
Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.
SNM 11603
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Greek
Content
epitaph of Ioannes
Date
700–999
Notes
 
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 20; W: 19; Th: 11
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
grey
Text colour
 
Lines
10
Height of letters
1.5-2
Description
Lower right corner of a slab. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, leaving the outer margins of 1 cm.
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
fragmentary; lower right corner; the very tip of the corner chipped off and the surface of the stone defaced in its lower left part
Date
700–999
Chronological systems
indiction
Dating formulae
[---] ̣ ̣ ⲓ︦ⲛⲇⲓ ⲓ︦ⲁ̣︥̄
Transcription
"in the 11th indiction" (l. 10)
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
I. Ghazali 15
Image
Image not available
Source
 
Image
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Latest edition
I. Ghazali 15
Other editions
Shinnie – Chittick 1961, p. 74, no. 13; I. Khartoum Greek 39, pl. 38
Other publications
Lethmayer – Zach 1986, p. 142
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