Text 4216
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, cemetery 2, unknown circumstances
- Excavation no.
- I 10
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11160
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- pronoia type
the fragment was published by Brans and van der Vliet as the same with DBMNT 897
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 16; W: 28.5; Th: 3.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- brownish
- Text colour
- Lines
- 4 (5 reconstructed)
- Height of letters
- 2–2.5
- Description
- Upper right part (put together from a number of smaller pieces) of a rectangular plaque, with the top margin preserved in more or less three quarters and the uppermost fragment of the right margin. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, leaving uninscribed margins of 1.5–1.7 cm on the right and 2.5 cm on the top.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; only upper right-hand part preserved
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 33
- Other editions
- Shinnie – Chittick 1961, p. 73, no. 10, ll. 1–4, cf. p. 77, no. 22 and p. 91, no. 70; I. Khartoum Copt. 68, ll. 1–4, pl. 41, upper
- Other publications
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