Text 4272
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, cemetery 2, found re-used in a mound of stones, perhaps serving as the superstructure of tomb Ghz-2-133
- Excavation no.
- Gh.2016.1.012
- Present location
- Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
- Museum no.
- not registered
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing & painted
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- unidentified
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 7.4; W: 8; Th: 3
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, surface red
- Text colour
- white (?)
- Lines
- 3
- Height of letters
- c. 2.2
- Description
- Fragment of the left (?) margin of a plaque. The epigraphic field is framed by an incised line, leaving the margin of 1.5 cm. The borderline and letters painted white but only slight remains of paint survive.
Very porous Nile clay with considerable organic and mineral admixture (mica, quartzite). - Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; part of one side (left?) margin preserved with remnants of three lines; surface very eroded
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 180
- Other editions
- Other publications
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