Text 4256
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, cemetery 2, tomb Ghz-2-143, mounted in the western end of the mastaba
- Excavation no.
- T.143
- Present location
- Ghazali, in situ
- Museum no.
- 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: 32.5; W: 29; Th: 3–4
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, surface red
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 4 (6 reconstructed)
- Height of letters
- 2–3
- Description
- Lower part of a rectangular plaque with complete lower margin, a large part of the left one, and a smaller of the right one preserved. The epigraphic field framed by a double incised line, leaving uninscribed margin of 2.5 cm on the left, 3 cm on the right, and 2 cm on the bottom. The last line consisting of three crosses, each formed of four dots. Crosses, frame, and letters painted black after firing.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary, upper part lacking, front surface almost completely eroded, extremely fragile, only parts of last lines preserved
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 144
- Other editions
- Other publications
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