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- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, cemetery 2, tomb Ghz-2-112, mounted in the western end of the mastaba
- Excavation no.
- T.112
- Present location
- Ghazali, in situ
- Museum no.
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised & painted
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph of unidentified man
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 21; W: 30.5; Th: 9.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- grey
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 6 (7 reconstructed)
- Height of letters
- 1–3
- Description
- Lower half of a slab with the slightly rounded bottom edge. Complete lower margin and a large part of side margins preserved. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line crossing in the corners, leaving margins of 2–3 cm on sides and 4–5 cm on the bottom. The side margins left uninscribed, in the bottom margin three incised crosses. Traces of black paint in some letters, most visible in the first epsilon of line 5, the crosses in line 7; the last cross in line 6 only painted black, not incised.
- Decorative elements
- three crosses incised on bottom margin and painted black
- State of preservation
- incomplete, upper part lacking
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 106
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Ciesielska – Obłuski – Stark 2018, fig. 5
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