Text 4257
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
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Polish-Sudanese excavations:
(a): cemetery 2, in the layer of broken mudbricks covering the superstructure of a secondary (monastic) burial, dug into the earlier tomb Ghz-2-004
(b): room 109, level 1, at east entrance - Excavation no.
- (a): Gh.2015.2.017C
(b): Gh.2015.2.027 - Present location
- Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
- Museum no.
- not registered
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek (?)
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 22.5; W: 8.5; Th: 2
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, front and side red to grey, back red
- Text colour
- Lines
- 8
- Height of letters
- 1.4–2.4
- Description
- Two joining pieces forming the lower left-hand part of a plaque. A large part of the right margin together with the lower left corner preserved. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, leaving margin of 1.5–1.9 cm on the left and ca. 1.4 on the bottom.
Porous Nile clay with organic and mineral admixture (mica, quartzite). - Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; left-hand part with lower left corner and beginning of eight 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 152
- Other editions
- Other publications
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