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- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, cemetery 2, found on the surface of the mastaba above tomb Ghz-2-139
- Excavation no.
- Gh.2016.1.075
- 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 or keleusis type
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 8.5; W: 7.7; Th: 2.9–3.1
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, surface red, painted white on front and sides
- Text colour
- white
- Lines
- 2
- Height of letters
- impossible to measure
- Description
- Upper left corner of a plaque. The epigraphic field is framed by an incised groove, leaving the margins of 3.5–3.7 cm on the top and 2.5 cm on the left. The cross (or crosses?) in line 1 is written in the upper margin.
Porous Nile clay with considerable organic and mineral admixture (mica, quartzite). - Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; upper left corner with fragments of upper and left margins and beginning of two uppermost lines; white paint covering the surface strongly eroded
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
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