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- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, cemetery 2, tomb Ghz-2-139, mounted in the western end of the mastaba
- Excavation no.
- T.139
- Present location
- Ghazali, in situ
- Museum no.
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing & painted
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph of unidentified man
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- not recorded
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, surface red
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 7
- Height of letters
- not recorded
- Description
- Lower part of a plaque with complete lower margin and the lower part of both side margins preserved. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line and a slightly raised border. The last line written on the margin. The frame and letters painted black after firing.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; upper part lacking; surface heavily eroded and completely illegible in the right-hand part; material very fragile
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲉ̣ⲡ̣ⲓ̣ⲫ̣ⲓ̣
- Transcription
- "Epeiph" (l. 2)
- Months
- ⲉ̣ⲡ̣ⲓ̣ⲫ̣ⲓ̣
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 141
- Other editions
- Other publications
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