core black, front red (slipped?), back red to grey
Text colour
black
Lines
1) 6 vertical; 2) 3 vertical
Height of letters
Description
terracotta tile with painted inscriptions on both sides: (1) Coptic alphabet in five columns with additional letters written without recognisible order below them; (2) beginning of alphabet in three vertical columns; text (2) written at angel of 25 degrees in respect to (1)
porous Nile clay with organic and mineral admixture (mica, quartzite)
Decorative elements
State of preservation
tile broken on all sides but re-used in this shape to write the inscription; inscription (1) complete but obliterated in central and lower part; inscription (2) apparently complete (unfinished?), but very obliterated and hardly legible