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- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, surface layers of fill of southern church (probably Shinnie's dump)
- Excavation no.
- G.13.001
- Present location
- Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
- Museum no.
- not registered
- 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: 13.3; W: 16.4; Th: 3
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, front greyish red to black, back greyish red
- Text colour
- white
- Lines
- 5
- Height of letters
- 1.6–1.8 (ⲯ: 3.7)
- Description
- Fragment of the lower part of a plaque, with a part of the bottom margin preserved.
Porous Nile clay with organic and mineral admixture (mica, quartzite). - Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; middle bottom part with small fragment of bottom margin and remains of four lines
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 114
- Other editions
- Other publications
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