Text 4240
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, fill above southern church
- Excavation no.
- G.13.002
- Present location
- Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
- Museum no.
- not registered
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 11.5; W: 11.6; Th: 2.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, surface red
- Text colour
- Lines
- 4
- Height of letters
- 1.3–2 (ϩ: 2.7)
- Description
- Lower right corner of a plaque. The epigraphic field framed by a slightly raised border.
Porous Nile clay with organic and considerable mineral admixture (mica, quartzite). - Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; lower right corner with endings of last four lines of text; front surface partly chipped off during the discovery
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 115
- Other editions
- Other publications
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