Text 4251
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, cemetery 2, re-used in the fill of the burial pit of tomb Ghz-2-148
- Excavation no.
- Gh.2016.1.146
- 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
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 14.8; W: 17; Th: 3.3 (5.5–6 with border)
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, surface red
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 4
- Height of letters
- 2.5–3.7
- Description
- lower right corner of plaque; epigraphic field framed by raised border 1.2 cm high, forming Lower right corner of a plaque. The epigraphic field framed by a raised border 1.2 cm high and 1.4–2 cm wide. The surface of the stela was red-slipped and the letters painted black before (?) firing. The back was roughly worked.
Porous Nile clay with organic and mineral admixture (mica, quartzite). - Decorative elements
- decorative cross in the lowermost line
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; lower right corner with ending of four 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 135
- Other editions
- Other publications
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