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- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, cemetery 2, tomb Ghz-2-138A, mounted in the western end of the mastaba
- Excavation no.
- T.138A
- 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: 18; W: 32; Th: 3.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, surface red
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 6
- Height of letters
- 2.5–3.5 (ϯ: 4.5)
- Description
- Lower part of a plaque with complete lower margin and the lower part of both side margins preserved. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, leaving the margins of 2 cm on the sides and 2–2.5 cm on the bottom. The last line of the text written partly on the frame. The frame and the letters painted black after firing.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- incomplete, upper part lacking; the fragment was twice as high at the moment of discovery with remains of at least one more line still visible, but the upper part completely disintegrated due to its extreme fragility
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 100
- Other editions
- Other publications
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