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- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, cemetery 2, surface find
- Excavation no.
- Gh.2016.1.143
- Present location
- Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
- Museum no.
- not registered
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 10; W: 13; Th: 3–3.2
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, front red to grey, back and side red
- Text colour
- Lines
- 2 (3 reconstructed)
- Height of letters
- 1.2–1.5
- Description
- Fragment of the left margin of a plaque. The lettering is shallow and appears to be executed after firing. The epigraphic field is framed by an incised line, leaving the margin of 2 cm. The back was roughly worked.
Porous Nile clay with organic and considerable mineral admixture (mica, quartzite). - Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; part of left margin with beginning of two lines
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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