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Provenance
Ghazali
Region
Makuria
Findspot
room 6
Excavation no.
G.13.051
Present location
Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
Museum no.
not registered
Medium
tablet
Technique
painted
Type of text
alphabet
Language
Coptic
Content
Coptic alphabet
Date
600–1099
Notes
 
Material
terracotta
Object dimensions
H: 13.2; W: 16; Th: 2.4–2.6
Text dimensions
1) H: 10; W: 8.5
2) H: ca. 6.5; W: 3.7
Object colour
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
Date
600–1099
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
Obłuski et alii 2017, fig. 12
Image
Image not available
Source
photo M. Bogacki
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
unpublished; mentioned in Obłuski et alii 2017, p. 388, fig. 12
Other editions
 
Other publications
Ochała 2016a, p. 1280; Obłuski – Ochała 2016, p. 76; Obłuski 2018, p. 157, pl. 1
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