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- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
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Polish-Sudanese excavations:
(a): cemetery 2, in layer of broken mudbricks covering the superstructure of a secondary (monastic) burial, dug into the earlier tomb Ghz-2-004
(b) cemetery 2, south part - Excavation no.
- (a): Gh.2015.2.017B
(b): Gh.2016.1.182 - 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: 14; W: 8.1; Th: 2–2.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, surface red on edge, light violet towards centre (slipped)
- Text colour
- Lines
- 6
- Height of letters
- 1.3–2.5
- Description
- Two joining pieces of the lower right part of a plaque with fragments of the lower and right margins preserved. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, leaving margin of 2.2–3.2 cm on the right and 1.7–2 cm on the bottom. Traces of dark paint inside the letters. The lowermost line written on the borderline and last letters of lines 2 and 3 written on the margin.
Porous Nile clay with organic and mineral admixture (mica, quartzite). - Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; lower left corner with ending of six 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 153
- Other editions
- Other publications
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