Text 4211
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, room Z
- Excavation no.
- Gh.2015.1.033
- Present location
- Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
- Museum no.
- not registered
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- fragment of epitaph of unidentified man
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- ‚God of the spirits’
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: +15; W: +16.5; Th: 2.7–3
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, front red to grey, back red
- Text colour
- Lines
- 7 (11 reconstructed)
- Height of letters
- 1–1.8
- Description
- Fragment of the central left-hand part of a plaque with a small fragment of the left margin. The epigraphic field framed by a high raised border (1.5 cm). The text ruled with incised lines, forming uneven registers of 1.8–2.3 cm in height. The beginning of the lines written on the slightly curved surface due to the closeness to the raised border.
Porous Nile clay with organic and small mineral admixture (mica, quartzite). - Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; central left-hand part with fragment of left margin
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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