Text 4226
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, outside monastery, west of south gate
- Excavation no.
- Gh.2016.1.189
- 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
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 26; W: 20.5; Th: 3–3.6
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core grey in central part, violet towards edges, surface red
- Text colour
- white
- Lines
- 8
- Height of letters
- 2–3
- Description
- Two joining fragments forming the lower left-hand part of a plaque, with lower left corner and fragments of lower and upper margins preserved. The letters painted white after firing.
Porous Nile clay with organic and mineral admixture (mica, quartzite). - Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; put together from two pieces; lower left-hand part with lower left corner and fragments of lower and left margins
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ϩⲛ ⲥⲟ̣[ⲩ --- ⲙⲡ]ⲉⲃⲟⲧ ⲡ̣[---]
- Transcription
- "on the [---] of the month of P[---]" (ll. 2–3)
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
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