Text 4218
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
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Polish-Sudanese excavations:
(a): room 67, fill over fallen vault
(b): room 22 - Excavation no.
- (a): Gh.2014.2.008
(b): Gh.2017.1.042 - Present location
- Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
- Museum no.
- not registered
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing & painted
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- pronoia type
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H 8.3; W: +16; Th: 2.4–3.2
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, front and side red, back greyish red
- Text colour
- white
- Lines
- 2
- Height of letters
- 2.5–3
- Description
- Two joining fragments of the upper margin of a plaque. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, forming the margin of 1.5–1.8 cm on the top. Ruling in the form of incised lines, forming registers of.3– 3.6 cm in height. The letters were painted white after firing (preserved only in [a]).
Porous Nile clay with small organic and mineral admixture (mica, quartzite). - Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; fragment of upper margin with remnants of two uppermost lines; fragment (b) badly eroded with no sign of paint
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
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