Text 4261
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, room 102
- Excavation no.
- Gh.2016.1.002
- Present location
- Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
- Museum no.
- not registered
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing & painted
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 8.7; W: 10.3; Th: not recorded
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black in centre, red close to surface, surface brown
- Text colour
- white and yellow/orange
- Lines
- 2
- Height of letters
- c. 2
- Description
- Rounded lower right corner of a plaque. The epigraphic field framed by broad groove, ca. 1.7 cm wide, forming a margin of ca. 1.5 cm on the bottom. The front surface painted white and yellow/orange after firing, possibly in stripes. The back surface roughly worked and painted red.
Very porous Nile clay with considerable organic and small mineral admixture (mica, quartzite). - Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; lower right corner with ending of two lines
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 156
- Other editions
- Other publications
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