Text 3123
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, room 8, perhaps re-used for reparation of east wall of monastery
- Excavation no.
- G.13.038
- Present location
- Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
- Museum no.
- not registered
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of Abibas, monk
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- 'God of the spirits' type
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 29; W: 30; Th: 7
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- grey with white and whitish spots on front
- Text colour
- Lines
- 12
- Height of letters
- 0.8–2.1
- Description
- Two joining fragments of the upper part of a rectangular slab. Right margin preserved in the whole height of the fragment, the left one only in the upper part, and the upper one along with both upper corners broken off. The epigraphic field framed by incised line, leaving margin of 2.8–3.5 cm on the right. Back surface left unworked.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- incomplete; put together from two pieces; bottom part broken off; both upper corners destroyed; right margin largely preserved; left margin partially preserved; perhaps also upper margin preserved in one place
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- [ϩ]ⲛ̣̄ ⲥⲟⲩ ⲙⲛ̄ⲧ̣ⲥ̣ⲁϣϥ̄ [ⲙ̄ⲡⲉⲃⲟⲧ ---]
- Transcription
- "on the seventeenth of the month of [---]" (ll. 12–13)
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- brother (= monk) (ⲥⲟ⸌ⲛ⸍): l. 11
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 14
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Obłuski – Ochała 2016, p. 70, fig. 4; CIEN 4, no. 66; Ochała in Obłuski et alii 2017, p. 382
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