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- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, cemetery 2, tomb Ghz-2-137, mounted in the western end of the mastaba
- Excavation no.
- T.137
- Present location
- Ghazali, in situ
- Museum no.
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing & painted
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph of unidentified man
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 37; W: 30–31; Th: 3.6
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, surface red
- Text colour
- white
- Lines
- 4
- Height of letters
- 1.5–2
- Description
- Lower part of a rectangular plaque with complete lower margin and a large part of both side margins preserved. The epigraphic field framed by a double incised line, leaving uninscribed margin of ca. 2 cm on the left, 3 cm on the right, and ca. 3 cm on the bottom. The cross at the end of line 4 painted with dark paint. The stela whitewashed after firing and then painted red (?).
Porous Nile clay with organic and considerable mineral admixture (sand). - Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary, upper part lacking, front surface almost completely defaced, extremely fragile, only parts of last lines preserved
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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