Text 4217
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, cemetery 2, tomb Ghz-2-138, in the mastaba and to the west of it
- Excavation no.
- Gh.2016.1.009
- 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
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- pronoia type
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 22.5; W: 33; Th: 3.3
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, front reddish grey, back greyish red
- Text colour
- Lines
- 6
- Height of letters
- c. 2
- Description
- Six joining fragments of the upper part of a plaque with complete upper margin and upper part of both side margins preserved. Central part is completely destroyed. The epigraphic field is framed by an incised line, leaving the margins of 1.9–2.2 cm on the right, 1.8–2.3 cm on the left, and 2.1–2.8 cm on the top. The cross in line 1 is written in the centre of the upper margin.
Porous Nile clay with organic and considerable mineral admixture (mica, quartzite). - Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; put together from six fragments; upper part of stela with complete upper margin and upper half of both side margins; central part destroyed; surface eroded; stela badly burnt and extremely fragile
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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