Text 4222
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, not recorded
- Excavation no.
- Gh.2015.2.023
- Present location
- Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
- Museum no.
- not registered
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph of unidentified monk
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- keleusis type
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 24; W: 31; Th. max: 7.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- reddish grey
- Text colour
- Lines
- 5
- Height of letters
- 1–1.5
- Description
- Upper part of a slab of irregular shape. Large part of the left and upper margins and a small fragment of the right one preserved. Upper right corner apparently cut off originally and upper left corner chipped off later. At the top, a broad margin (ca. 10 cm wide) inscribed with a large cross moline (4.8 x 4 cm).
- Decorative elements
- large decorative cross in upper margin
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; upper part with large fragments of upper and left-hand margins and small fragment of the right one; upper left corner broken off; surface covered in dirt and very eroded, especially in lower part
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- brother (= monk) (?) (ⲡⲉ̣[ⲛⲥⲟⲛ]): l. 5
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
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