Text 4243
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, room 104, fill, east side
- Excavation no.
- Gh.2015.2.039
- Present location
- Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
- Museum no.
- not registered
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing & painted
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 12; W: 10.6; Th: 1.7–1.8
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, front and sides red, back greyish red
- Text colour
- white
- Lines
- 5
- Height of letters
- 1.8–2.5
- Description
- Lower right corner of a plaque. The epigraphic field framed by a double incised line. Traces of white paint inside the letters and the borderlines. The last line written on the incised border.
Porous Nile clay with organic and mineral admixture (mica, quartzite). - Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; lower right corner with part of left and lower margins and ending of five lowermost lines
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 120
- Other editions
- Other publications
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