Text 4253
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, cemetery 2, tomb Ghz-2-124B, mounted in the western end of the mastaba
- Excavation no.
- T.124B
- 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: 18; W: 27; Th: 7
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- greyish white
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 3
- Height of letters
- c. 2
- Description
- Lower part of a slab with complete lower margin and lower part of both side margins preserved. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, leaving uninscribed margin of ca. 2 cm on the left, ca. 3 cm on the right, and ca. 3 cm on the bottom. The frame and the letters painted black.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; upper part lacking; stone extremely powdery and fragile; lines 1–2 visible at the moment of discovery now almost completely illegible
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 137
- Other editions
- Other publications
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