Text 4233
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, cemetery 2, tomb Ghz-2-156, mounted in the western end of the mastaba
- Excavation no.
- T.156
- Present location
- unknown (stolen from the site)
- Museum no.
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing & painted
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of Merkourios, pistos
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- not recorded
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- surface red
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 8
- Height of letters
- not recorded
- Description
- Lower part of a roughly rectangular plaque with complete lower margin and a large part of both side margins preserved. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line. The surface of the stela whitewashed and then the letters and frame painted black.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- incomplete, upper part lacking
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ϩⲛ̄ ⲥⲟⲩ ϫⲟⲩⲧⲁⲥⲉ ⲙ̄ⲡⲉⲃⲟⲧ ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲣⲏ
- Transcription
- "on the twenty-sixth of the month of Mesore" (ll. 4–6)
- Months
- ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲣⲏ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- pistos (ⲡⲡⲓⲥⲧⲟⲥ): l. 4
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 98
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Łajtar 2022, fig. on p. 443
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