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- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, cemetery 2, re-used in the mastaba of grave Ghz-2-144
- Excavation no.
- Gh.2016.1.004
- 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
- will/wish type
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 12; W: 13; Th: 3 (4.5 with border)
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, surface red
- Text colour
- white & red
- Lines
- 2 (3 reconstructed)
- Height of letters
- 2–2.8
- Description
- Fragment of the upper margin of a plaque. The epigraphic field framed by raised border ca. 1.5 cm high, forming the margin of 2.5–3 cm on the top. The letters are painted white in line 1 and red in line 2, the pattern which probably continued throughout the whole stela.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; upper part with fragment of upper margin
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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