Text 24
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, room AA
- Excavation no.
- not registered
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11611
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- fragment of epitaph of unidentified man
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- (a): H: 22; W: 17; Th: 11
(b): H: 27; W: 16; Th: 12 - Text dimensions
- Object colour
- grey
- Text colour
- Lines
- 16
- Height of letters
- 1.2-2.3
- Description
- Two pieces of a round-topped (?) slab: (a) – upper right corner, (b) – lower left corner. They do not join, but appear to be very close to one another: line 7 of fragment (b) may be the continuation of the first line preserved in fragment (b) or there may be one more line missing.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- incomplete; upper right quarter and lower left one preserved with original margins
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲉⲛ ⲙ︤ⲏ︥ ⲑⲱⲑ ⲉ̣[---]
- Transcription
- "in the month of Thoth, (day) 5" (l. 8)
- Months
- ⲑⲱⲑ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 76
- Other editions
- Shinnie – Chittick 1961, pp. 76–7, nos. 20, 21; I. Khartoum Greek 40, pl. 39a–b
- Other publications
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