DBMNT

Provenance: Ghazali
Region: Makuria
Findspot: Polish-Sudanese excavations, cemetery 2, all fragments apart from the lower left corner re-used in the fill of the burial pit of tomb Ghz-2-148; the lower left corner found apparently in situ in the western end of the mastaba of this tomb
Excavation no.: Gh.2016.1.142
Present location: Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
Museum no.: not registered

Description: Nine joining pieces forming the lower and central parts of a rectangular plaque, with more than a half of the lower margin and the lowermost part of the left one preserved; a tiny fragment of the right margin survives in the top of the piece. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, leaving the margins of 1.8–2 cm on the left, 1.2–1.5 cm on the right, and 2–2.3 cm on the bottom. On the back impression of mat on which the stela dried up in the sun. The central lower part of the plaque very thick and deformed as a result of overburning.
Text visually divided into two parts: ll. 1–4 written in small and narrow letters, ll. 5–10 in bigger and widely spaced; perhaps parts written by different hands.

Porous Nile clay with organic and mineral admixture (mica, quartzite).
Decorative elements
State of preservation: fragmentary; put together from nine pieces; lower left corner with fragments of lower and left margins preserved as well as small piece of right margin in upper part of preserved fragment (central part of stela); central lower part very thick and deformed as result of overburning

Dating formulae: ⲛ̄ⲥⲟⲩ ⲙⲛ̄ⲧⲥⲛ[ⲟⲟⲩⲥ] ⲙ̣ⲡⲉ[ⲃⲟⲧ ⲡⲁⲩⲛ]ⲓ̣ ⲁⲡⲟ ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏ̄ [ⲉ]ⲧ̣ⲏ ⲩ̄ⲡ̄[ ̣?]
Transcription: "on the twelfth of the month of Payni (?), in the year 48x (?) from Diocletian" (ll. 2–3)
Months: [ⲡⲁⲩⲛ]ⲓ̣
Weakdays
Feasts

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