Text 4204
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, cemetery 2, tomb Ghz-2-109, mounted in west part of mastaba
- Excavation no.
- T.109
- Present location
- Ghazali, in situ
- Museum no.
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised & painted
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph of unidentified monk
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 31; W: 31; Th: c. 17
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- white
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 9
- Height of letters
- 2–3
- Description
- Lower half of a rectangular slab with complete lower margin and large parts of both side margins preserved. The epigraphic field framed by incised line, leaving uninscribed margins of 2–2.5 cm on the sides and 4–5 cm on the bottom. Cross potent incised in the lower right corner of the epigraphic field. The borderline, the letters, and the cross painted black.
- Decorative elements
- decorative cross in lower right corner, inside epigraphic field
- State of preservation
- incomplete, upper part lacking; stone extremely powdery and delicate, upper lines visible at the moment of discovery now disintegrated
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ϫ̣ⲟ̣ⲩ̣ⲱⲧ ⲙ̣ⲡ̣ⲉ̣ⲃ̣ⲟ̣ⲧ̣ ⲭ̣ⲟ̣ⲓ̣ⲁ̣ⲕ̄ϩ
- Transcription
- "(day) twenty of the month of Choiak" (ll. 2–4)
- Months
- ⲭ̣ⲟ̣ⲓ̣ⲁ̣ⲕ̄ϩ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- monk (ⲙ̣[ⲟⲛⲁ]ⲭ̣ⲟ̣ⲥ̣): ll. 1–2
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 102
- Other editions
- Other publications
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