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- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, room 94, pottery deposit
- Excavation no.
- Gh.2015.2.044
- Present location
- Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
- Museum no.
- not registered
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph of unidentified man
- Date
- circa 800–899
- Notes
- pronoia type
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 17.3; W: 11.5; Th: 3.2–3.7
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, front red to grey, back and sides red
- Text colour
- Lines
- 8
- Height of letters
- 1–2 (ⲯ: 2.5)
- Description
- Lower left corner of a plaque. The epigraphic field framed by a groove, leaving the margin of ca. 1.1 cm on the right and bottom. The surface heavily worn and the letters obliterated in places, especially in the lower part.
Porous Nile clay with organic and mineral admixture (mica, quartzite). - Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; lower left corner with large parts of left and bottom margins; lowermost lines eroded and hardly legible
- Date
- circa 800–899
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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