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- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, fill above southern church
- Excavation no.
- G.13.005
- 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: 15; W: 29.6; Th: 2.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, front and sides red, back completely eroded
- Text colour
- white
- Lines
- 2 (3 reconstructed)
- Height of letters
- 2–2.5
- Description
- Two joining pieces from the lower part of a plaque, with a large part of the bottom margin and a small lowermost fragment of the right one preserved. The epigraphic field framed by incised line, leaving uninscribed margins of ca. 2 cm. The letters were painted white after firing.
Porous Nile clay with considerable organic and mineral admixture (mica, quartzite). - Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; upper part lacking; back surface completely eroded
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 122
- Other editions
- Other publications
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