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- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, cemetery 2, tomb Ghz-2-118, mounted in the western end of the mastaba
- Excavation no.
- T.118
- Present location
- Ghazali, in situ
- Museum no.
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised & painted
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 14; W: 30.5; Th: 8
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- greyish white
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 4 (5 reconstructed)
- Height of letters
- 2–2.5 (ϩ: 3)
- Description
- Lower part of a slab with complete lower margin and the lowermost part of both side margins preserved. The lower left corner broken off, apparently originally. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, leaving uninscribed margins of ca. 3–3.5 cm on the sides and ca. 2 cm on the bottom. The lower part of the epigraphic field left uninscribed apart from a cross potent on a standard incised in the right part. The cross and the letters painted black.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; upper part lacking; lower left corner originally broken off
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 117
- Other editions
- Other publications
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