Text 4241
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, outside monastery, west of south gate
- Excavation no.
- Gh.2016.1.191
- 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: 18; W: 23; Th: 2.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core red towards back, surface red
- Text colour
- white
- Lines
- 5
- Height of letters
- 2–3
- Description
- Four joining fragments of the lower right corner of a plaque. The stela is red-slipped (the slip largely eroded) and the letters were painted white after firing.
Porous Nile clay with considerable organic and mineral admixture (mica, quartzite). - Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; put together from four pieces; lower right corner with fragments of lower and right margins
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 116
- Other editions
- Other publications
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